iMac 24 Core2Duo 8GB ram.
Virgin 10mb cable bband.
I have been buying a few box sets from iTunes (10.5 -141) but am a bit taken aback at what happens when the download begins.
Normally my 10Mb Virgin cable is very fast. A 100-200Mb file takes a few minutes to download. But with iTunes purchases it takes 45mins to 1hr to download each set of 3 episodes (for some reason iTunes batches them that way). However, as it proceeds, each subsequent set of 3 take longer and longer to download, very often stopping completely.
During download my internet is functionally useless for other tasks. Pages take an age to load. Which is odd because there is not enough data being downloaded (at that slow rate to max out my broadband.) This doesn't happen when downloading a normal large file.
However, if I close iTunes everything instantly returns to normal.
The slow iTunes download, though bad, I can accept, but what's with the broadband choking?
Any thoughts?
Virgin 10mb cable bband.
I have been buying a few box sets from iTunes (10.5 -141) but am a bit taken aback at what happens when the download begins.
Normally my 10Mb Virgin cable is very fast. A 100-200Mb file takes a few minutes to download. But with iTunes purchases it takes 45mins to 1hr to download each set of 3 episodes (for some reason iTunes batches them that way). However, as it proceeds, each subsequent set of 3 take longer and longer to download, very often stopping completely.
During download my internet is functionally useless for other tasks. Pages take an age to load. Which is odd because there is not enough data being downloaded (at that slow rate to max out my broadband.) This doesn't happen when downloading a normal large file.
However, if I close iTunes everything instantly returns to normal.
The slow iTunes download, though bad, I can accept, but what's with the broadband choking?
Any thoughts?