Slow speed downloading apps

Anyone else having trouble downloading applications to their iphone? I have tried many times in the last few days to download facebook (after wiping in error) with no luck.

I was having the same problem on my 5th gen iPod Touch... Changing my DNS server seems to have fixed this issue for me:
To do this, go into your iPod's Settings->Wi-Fi then click on your active wifi hotspot's blue arrow icon.  Find "DNS" and after noting the address found there (in case you prefer to revert back to it later), click on it and substitute one of Googles two Public DNS addresses (you can use either 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4).  This fixed it immediately for me.  
You can download Cisco's app "Gist" (from AppStore) to measure your Wi-Fi throughput before and after. I went from 365 kbps to a respectable 7900 kbps after making the change. 
If it doesn't seem to work immediately after applying the fix, try using Safari & surfing somewhere after changing the DNS addr. (I went to Google.com then to "Images" using the link found there, then tried the Gist app again). This was only necessary once in several tests.
Anyway, I was able to reliably recreate the problem by reverting back to my old DNS settings where I found myself again at 365 kbps.  Google's DNS address brought me back to 7900 each time. Hope this helps.... - e

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