Should it take more than an hour to download a movie rental from iTunes?
I purchased and began my download an hour before I had to leave for work. When I left for work, my download said it still had 33min. left. Is this normal? If not, what can I do to speed up the process?
Oh, I have a year and half year old MacBook that is completely updated.
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Midday, other people may be using the bandwidth. What type of internet connection do you have?
It depends on the bandwidth of your Internet connection (not your computer age), and the size of the movie. A typical complete movie DVD may have about 4 gigabytes of data on it. If you have a 1 megabit per second download rate, that would be, in theory, 450 megabytes per hour, and if it’s cable, you may be sharing bandwidth with others in your neighborhood, and servers between you and the file server, and the file server itself, may be sharing bandwidth and/or have other transmission issues, so yeah, it could take 8 hours or more.
An aside: some interesting info explaining how scalability of the Internet is handled.
Like @Zaku said, bandwidth.
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That Akamai is quite impressive. “Sales should top $400 million by the end of the year.”..
I have Time Warner high speed cable. If I plug in directly, instead of using my wifi, will it download faster?
Likely no.
802.11g supports up to 54Mbps, typically averaging about 19Mbps in real world use. But your TWC is likely only 8–10Mbps… unless you’re on some higher tier plan?
Still, it won’t hurt to try. Maybe your router is acting up.
It officially took 1hr 48min to download the movie, but it took about 10 min. to sync it to my iphone. WTF?
USB 2.0 has a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 480Mbps… much, much faster than either your wifi or internet conn.
it took mine an hour so as long its not like 3 hours or something crazy like that
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