Videos take a LONG time to download

I am using iTunes 6 (the latest update) and videos take a really long time to download. For just one video it takes 10 minutes to download. Could someone give me some advice or tips to make video downloads go faster? Thanks.

That depends mainly on the speed of your internet connection (and on the load of the download server).
Let's say the video to download is about 200MByte and you're using a 4Mbit/s DSL connection like me.
200MByte x 8 = 1600Mbit / 4Mbit/s = 400 second (in theory) = 6min40sec

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Wondering if anybody has run into a solution for this problem:
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ME TOO!!!! This has been driving me nuts!!! I've been trying to streamline my workflow and integrate everything the way it's SUPPOSED to work, to no avail! Does anyone know anything about this at all? Is apple looking into this? Does anyone have suggestions?
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it is taking a very long time to download OS X Lion. How long should it take?
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