Wifi and iTunes incredibly slow since Yosemite

interesting it posted this as a unique problem.. my wifi and iTunes are incredibly slow on my 17" macbook pro since the yosemite update. was taking 20 minutes to download a movie from iTunes now it's 8 plus hours and iTunes is sooooooo slow. what's up? how do i fix it?

Do a backup, preferably 2 separate ones on 2 separate drives.
Revert to a Previous OS X - Yosemite
Revert Yosemite to Mavericks
If you do revert, I'd use Setup Assistant to restore your data. This process takes a while, so do it when you won't need the computer for several hours, based on my experience.
The 2 places I’ve seen recommended most to buy reliable RAM are below. I have purchased RAM several times from Other World Computing and have always been very satisfied with the product and service. They have on-line instructions on how to replace the RAM. OWC has also tested RAM above what Apple states is the maximum. I now have 6GB installed on a early 2008 iMac supposedly limited to 4 GB and noticed an improvement.
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Bluetooth Apple Wireless Keyboard and Bluetooth Apple Wireless Mouse Pro
brand new Newertech ministack 500gb drive and later upgrade to 1gig memory (explained below)
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I purchased the mac mini last winter, and I have a large music collection that would not completely fit onto the mini hard drive at that time (approx. 330 gig - >73,000 files) - so what I did was get a crossover cable and networked my mac to my pc and would access my music files on my Windows iTunes library via the "shared library via network" option. It worked fine. I couldn't update track information nor change artwork as needed, but I could at least access my music, and it would do it at a fairly fast clip. When I first would select the Windows iTunes library the beach ball would spin for about a minute, presumably to load in the library informationfrom the PC, but then I could search change tracks, etc, with relative ease and spriteness. Additionally I could do other things on the mac (mostly just goof on the internet and check email, but occassionally do higher function tasks like edit photos in iPhoto or Photoshop elements.) Again, all without any problem.
So last week I took advantage of a sale online of the Newertech ministack drives, and bought a 500gb model. Via the crossover cable I transferred all the music files to the new external hard drive (which is either firewire or USB, my choice) - I accomplished this by making the library folders on the XP sharable, clicked "add to library" on the mac and chose the music folders on the XP, but then had the mac automatically copy the files to the Mac library and also set the Mac itunes to keep the library organized. This took quite a long time - probably close to 20 hours or so. I lost playcounts and the dates things were added, but I figured what the heck. Clean start on a new machine. And also figured that I would figure out a way to get that information moved eventually anyway.
This is when the problem started - and the source of my quandry that I'm hoping someone will be able to help me with.
When I first start iTunes it take a LONG time (about 3 miuntes) to load up - but then again, no problem as I figure it is reading the xml file. HOWEVER< When i now select a song, it will take a few seconds to begin to play, but then what's more odd it that it just about pulls my system down completely. And this is only using iTunes, and perhaps being online (via telephone line) - no other processor or memory intensive thing going on. Switching through songs is a nightmare, and has rendered the entire system non responsive at times forcing a restart.
Furthermore, when it will switch from one song to the other, the information window in itunes (that shows the songs, time elapsed etc) will hang - the next song will already be playing, but the old information will be there hanging - and then the information will "jump" to the current track (usually about 30-45 sconds into it) , but oftentimes I will get the spinning beach ball, as well as itunes not responding at all. Music stutters or cuts out completely for a few seconds. There have been times I've attempted to change information on the ID3 tag through itunes, but clicking the get information button has sometimes resulted in the dialogue box for said track not coming up until the next track is playing because of the beach ball spinning.
I went out and bought 1 gig of RAM for the machine (the max this model can take) and it has MOSTLY stopped the stuttering of the music as it plays (I was watching istat nano, and would notice when a track played my RAM would slowly go down from approx 200 meg free to about 5 meg free, and then the stuttering would begin) - installing the extra memory has stopped this mostly as I said although in watching the istat nano there is a significant chunk of memory being used during the first part of any song before it jumps back to less memory being used). From what I can tell however, it doesn't use up much CPU cycles (using istat nano)
What I find most aggrivating about this, is that when I NOW choose the shared playlist from my XP - it STILL works great as it did before. I can click through, have the computer play songs randomly, do search queues as before and it operates without a hitch, and those hard drives are on a different machine on the floor. Mind you I can't change any information on those tracks, but I can hear and search and change through songs, play, pause responds immediately no problems..........But when I switch back to the "local" mac library eveything goes to **** again. A few times iTunes has completely stopped responding, resulting in me having to force quit the appication.
So having said all that (and if you are still reading this, thank you - I know it is long windeed but figure too much information is better than just my saying "it's not working, how do I fix it" ) I understand that this is a rather large music file (used at my place of employment, I had the guys I work with add their music to it, and use it as a library for the workplace) but I'm sure also that there are others out there with much larger music collections who are doing this without a hitch.
What I HAVE tried so far is to repair the permissions (which were only on the internal Mac drive - no permissions were on the external drive according the the Utilities as that option was greyed out - is that normal? I'm still new to macintosh and have no idea what permissions are, other than people with similar problems as mine on the board were reccommended this as a potential remedy) - and of course I doubled my RAM as described earlier. When I installed the new memory I zapped the PRAM (two chimes on startup) and when I check system preferences the extra memory is showing as available. I even defragged the internal drive thinking that might help, but to no avail. I attempted running the hard drive using the firewire connection and then attempted the USB connection, again, with no luck.
It is most frustrating in that I was looking forward to FINALLY having everything on my Macintosh properly and all things running smoothly - but so far it has just been an aggrivation and has had me scratching my head wondering if I should just have left well enough alone and always have the Mac networked with the Windows machine, or even just stuck with the Windows machine ....... :: shudders ::
Should I delete the xml file and have iTunes rebuild it? Or should I uninstall iTunes and reinsall it? If so, on the internal drive, or on the external drive (provided I can even do that) - as I said before I have no favorite tracks or playlists on the mac yet, so I'd be losing nothing in trying it, and would gladly welcome anything that would resolve this.
I hope you can help, and I anxiously await your response which could be the soluton to my problem.
Respectfully submitted,
Len

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EtreCheck version: 2.0.11 (98)
Report generated 16 November 2014 11:34:56 am AEDT
Hardware Information: ℹ️
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1
1 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Video Information: ℹ️
Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 384 MB
Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10 (14A389) - Uptime: 0:7:23
Disk Information: ℹ️
TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500.11 GB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
Macintosh HD (disk1) / [Startup]: 498.88 GB (346.01 GB free)
Encrypted AES-XTS Unlocked
Core Storage: disk0s2 499.25 GB Online
OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5970H
USB Information: ℹ️
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 1 TB
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk2s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
TOSHIBA EXT (disk2s2) /Volumes/TOSHIBA EXT : 999.86 GB (862.74 GB free)
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
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Mac App Store and identified developers
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[not loaded] com.sierrawireless.driver.SierraDIPSupport (1.0.0) Support
[not loaded] com.sierrawireless.driver.SierraDevSupport (1.0.7) Support
[not loaded] com.sierrawireless.driver.SierraFSRSupport (1.0.1) Support
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[not loaded] com.sierrawireless.driver.SierraIPDirect (1.1.2) Support
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Launch Daemons: ℹ️
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[invalid?] com.citrixonline.GoToMeeting.G2MUpdate.plist Support
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iTunesHelper Application (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)
Safari ApplicationHidden (/Applications/Safari.app)
Canon IJ Network Scanner Selector EX ApplicationHidden (/Applications/Canon Utilities/IJ Network Scanner Selector EX/Canon IJ Network Scanner Selector EX.app)
Telstra Connection Manager Application (/Users/[redacted]/.Trash/Telstra Connection Manager.app)
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FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.223 - SDK 10.6 Support
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 10.1.12 Support
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.12 Support
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o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.38.6.0 - SDK 10.8 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
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WebEx64: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
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AdBlock
Duplicate Tab Button-1
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Flash Player Support
Time Machine: ℹ️
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
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Destinations:
TOSHIBA EXT [Local]
Total size: 999.86 GB
Total number of backups: 3
Oldest backup: 2014-11-07 05:38:19 +0000
Last backup: 2014-11-12 06:58:05 +0000
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      1% hidd
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279 MB Safari
107 MB iTunes
86 MB Messages
77 MB WindowServer
56 MB mds_stores
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233 MB Free RAM
1.60 GB Active RAM
1.39 GB Inactive RAM
1.07 GB Wired RAM
1.18 GB Page-ins
37 KB Page-outs

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