Very slow downloads,videos slow & Choppy playing

In the last few days when I try to watch/download ANY Videos it takes a long time. The videos load slowly,start to play,then load some more, start to play and on and on. Very choppy, stop and go.
The video has to constantly stop playing,download some more,then play a few seconds and then download some more,play a few seconds,etc.,etc.!
Have noticed downloads of other kinds also seem to be taking longer. However, no problem going to websites.
Please help and advise. I also upgraded to Mozilla 5.0 from 3.6 but no change or improvement!
Thank you!

I'm not getting errors, but I am getting unacceptable download times that have worsened since January 2011. I tend to think that Apple's content servers for iTunes are overwhelmed, but there is no excuse for having to wait an hour for a movie rental on my AppleTV, or 45 minutes for a music download to my Mac. It's just not acceptable; these files are not particularly large, and my cable connection is otherwise fast.
As for the hopes of improved download times once the farm goes live, I wouldn't count on it: any increase we (as end users) may experience will evaporate as the number of new users exponentially increases. Then it's back to dialup-like download times.
Steve-o needs to get his act together and get the situation corrected.

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