My first movie rental experience: if this speed is normal it's my last experience too

[PDE]

I thought I'd try the new itunes rental service, opened itunes and selected my movie. I've never had such a slow download! I have a fast cable line and (10000 kpbs) and it says 6 hours remaining for the download! Is this normal? If it is, this a useless service. I mean, the whole point of getting things online is immediate access. Am I missing something here?

[billabong]

I thought I'd try the new itunes rental service, opened itunes and selected my movie. I've never had such a slow download! I have a fast cable line and (10000 kpbs) and it says 6 hours remaining for the download! Is this normal? If it is, this a useless service. I mean, the whole point of getting things online is immediate access. Am I missing something here?

Must be alot faster for AppleTV then, cause I have about a 30 second wait time for SD movies and about 5-10minutes for HD ones...

[NightStorm]

Yeah, I can start watching a HD rental on my AppleTV within 30 seconds of hitting the rental button, and I only have 6mbps DSL. I'd say there is something wrong with your network speed, or your ISP is throttling traffic from the iTunes Akamai servers.

[filmguy15]

Yeah, I've never waited more than 2 minutes to start watching on my ATV. I've rented a few straight from iTunes as well, and they took an hour at most to finish downloading. It's got to be throttling....

[PDE]

A little bit of a false alarm....it got faster and downloaded the entire movie in one hour. Also, I noticed that I could start watching before it was downloaded, even though it did stop at one point because it hadn't downloaded enough.


I tested my download speed and it was fine so I don't know what happened. At least it wasn't 6 hours! Sorry for the alarmist post, but I was surprised that it showed 6 hours...

Cheers

[virus7]

i have rented 2 movies from iTMS and they took about 30 min to fully download (they were both around 1GB)

[aross99]

It took me about 30 minutes to download 1.3GB for me - this was over wireless (802.11n) to my MBP, but I had a video chat going the whole time, so I would think it would have been even faster if that was all I was doing.

[The Toon Master]

were you downloading anything else at the time (iTunes/Non-iTunes) and using any video games or other applications? When I use uTorrent, it's usually impossible for me to download an iTunes TV Show (Kinda silly for me to use it anyway since I can get the file off that for free if I wanted to). Did you look at it after 20mins too, because the initial time for me is usually 6 hours, and it boils down to about 20min and finally finishes after 15min (For My Episodes of The Soup)

[tdhurst]

It took me about 30 minutes to download 1.3GB for me - this was over wireless (802.11n) to my MBP, but I had a video chat going the whole time, so I would think it would have been even faster if that was all I was doing.

The fact you're connected to your router wirelessly wouldn't have made a difference. Very few internet download speeds even approach 802.11g transfer times.

[Keebler]

glad it worked out, but holy panic button Batman! give new things a chance before getting too worked up :)