I’m a web worker. My work is online, and it all slows to a snail’s pace if I’m streaming or downloading a video.

I have “High-Speed Xtreme-I” which promises “up to” a-lot, but the metered download rate is much, much lower than advertised, about 1.5-2Mb/s up and 0.75Mb/s. Fire up a video download and I’m in slowmo.

I want my favorite online video content delivered to me. Some of it is available on iTunes. Others like WordPress.tv is available on Miro.

Currently, I download a batch at the end of the day, but for my family the web is no fun if I’m downloading video podcasts in iTunes.

Is there a way to self-throttle or meter specific streams, downloads or applications on Mac OS X?

Unfortunately, there is a lot of content that isn’t even available for downloading. Mostly, I imagine because the content is supported by web page ads. I’d pay for that content, why is there no Audible.com for video podcasts? Or is there?

Even if available on iTunes or Miro, there is not even a link back to the online discussion, let alone comments, inline comments and tags (Viddler), and other resources. I would like it all to be pulled into my video player, except for YouTube comments

Am I alone? Any help fellow web workers? Any help from NewTeeVee pros?