Why is a rental movie from apple tv taking 15hrs to download?

Hi Has anyone had this problem? Rented a movie on Apple TV the other night,haven't watched it yet because I'm not hanging around for 15 hrs waiting for it to download
Anyway I was under the impression that rentals from apple TV were streamed from the cloud?
My Internet connection appears to be ok ,what's happening?
thanks.

your internet speed is likely just slow
even if 7Mbit/Sec was fast a few years ago these days it's pretty slow
and downloading a movie take some space

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