Slow iTunes podcast download

Hi,
It takes me, and others, 11 minutes to download our new episode (69MB) from iTunes. Other people's podcasts, of a similar size, I can download in 1 or 2 minutes.
My internet speed is solid, and I've just contacted godaddy support, and they insist that it's an iTunes problem; as downloading episodes from our RRS feed directly is very quick. Additionally, I'm on win7 with iTunes v11.0.4, but have recieved complaints from mac users as well.
I cleared my roaming iTunes cache manually, as well as through the iTunes preferences, and restarted to no effect.
I'm concerned about alienating our meager listenership with unusually long iTunes download times, any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks for your time,
D.
Itunes store page - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mryacast/id425571367
RRS feed - http://blog.mrya.ca/podcasts-only/rss2.aspx

It's nothing to do with iTunes. When I tried downloading your latest episode in FireFox it said it was going to take fifteen minutes. (My connection, by the way, is 100Mb/s.) It might be the server, or anything in the connection between wherever it is and me (in the UK), but you can rule out iTunes as an issue (in fact when I subscribed it said it would take 11 minutes which is slightly better).

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