If you’re a podcast download junkie, then you probably are downloading a lot of data. When you’re using iTunes, some companies (like Time Warner) put a cap on your download speed. I don’t know how “excessive” is “excessive” downloading but I guess when you’re a download fiend, that’s a lot. But this cap can cause your downloads to crawl. One thing you can do is to monitor your download speeds.

It’s actually very simple. In iTunes, go to the download progress of your files. You’ll notice the progress bar tells you an estimated time until your download is complete, but not how fast your download is actually downloading. If you click on the progress bar, however, the information changes, and will include the actual speed of your download.

Knowing whether your total speed doesn’t quite reach the optimum means that you might have to cut back on your other downloads. Then again, download speeds will vary from the number of people downloading the file, the server, and your own connection.

Via Apple Gazette