Poor Performance of iTunes Servers..

I haven't had any problems with iTunes. I'm thinking it's something wrong on your end and not Apple's.

My podcasts are extremely slow downloading today. Probably everyone getting the updates.

Anyone having problems, specifically searching?

I've been having a lot of problems with searching for awhile now as well. But it seems like it only time outs when I search for something they don't have. :confused:

It's strange. I got tired of Windows Live One Care, so I uninstalled it. No more search problems. Hmmm ...

I have poor itune store performance aswell since some time. Not when clicking on an album or previewing a song, but every search times out, even for artists/albums that are definately there :o( So it's become useless to me.

Is there anything we can check to actually locate the problem. I'm in Belgium. I did a speed test (with speedtest.com) and achieved 3000 upto 10000 kbps (depending on the server) which seems quite good.

I did some further tests and indeed, it times out everytime i search for an artist / album which isn't on iTunes.

Everytime I do anything on the iTunes store that is during prime hours--nightly from about 4 CST to after midnight, it is slow or times out. Seems to me that Apple needs to get this under control of people will go elsewhere.

Very frustrating, especially for those of us who remember how slick it used to be!

I've had the same problem. I used to just have problems with slow downloads (a few minutes, vs. the normal few seconds). Now I've been having a lot of timeouts with the search function. Basically the whole iTunes store locks up.

Later,
Aaron

I have a somewhat related issue with network timeouts in the ITMS but it's more to do with the checkout process. Before I used to use the shopping cart method to purchase songs, so that I could just queue up stuff that I'd want to buy eventually and be able to choose exactly which songs to buy in a batch. But around the time of version 7, I've never been able to access my shopping cart which has a good handful of songs that I've been wanting to purchase. I really hate using the 1-click method where it just purchases songs individually since there are some albums where I want multiple tracks and I might not want to buy the song right then and there but just queue it up for a future purchase(before I forget).

Another similar problem I had was when I purchased a song and the stupid ITMS tried to immediately download it but timed out. I was so ####ed since I had actually bought the track and was unable to revive the connection to the store to force the song to download. It was lame because ITMS thought the track downloaded ok when nothing happened at all. Other than that though my experiences with the store have been overall pleasant and mostly trouble free.

If you're wondering, I've also tried also the standard tricks of disabling antivirus/firewall software, bypassing routers, etc. None of which resolved the network timeout issue when trying to load my shopping cart. If anyone has other solutions or this problem, I'd love to hear how you resolved it!

It wouldn't surprise me, there must be a lot of traffic go through the iTunes Music Store every single day. However, Apple should really upgrade their servers to meet demand and the added load of putting videos on there as well.

It wouldn't surprise me, there must be a lot of traffic go through the iTunes Music Store every single day. However, Apple should really upgrade their servers to meet demand and the added load of putting videos on there as well.

The servers are not the issue. Bandwidth is the issue.