When i try to buy something it always says "could not be downloaded at this time"?

I need help when i try to buy something on itunes it says," could not be downloaded at this time"

That's not necessarily correct. At least in my case slides and videos for Stanford CS193P are downloading from deimos3.apple.com.
Annoyingly if I try to download "12. Persistence (November 3, 2011) - SD" from iTunes U on my iPad I get the error message:
     Unable to Download Podcast
     "12. Persistence (November 3, 2011) - SD" could not be downloaded at this time.
     [Done] [Retry]
But if I then try from iTunes on my MacBook Pro sitting right beside it on the same network it actually starts downloading. Generally I've found downloads to be more reliable from my MacBook than on my iPad, but they're still amazingly slow (10 kilobytes per second seems the norm, regardless of whose network I'm on at the time).

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