Is this a joke? Of course a 50MB Wii/3DS game is going to download faster than 22GB Wii U game. Have you guys never used Steam or PS3 before?

You seem to have eliminated the thing I thought most likely QoS setting on your router.  All I can say is that I have had a very possitive experience with the downloads on the north american servers.  My install times are slow (it seems to download to the flash and then install to the external HDD) but my download times are all reasonable.  I have downloaded everything that did not come in the box and that was not a retail only title. (ZombiU, AC3, Sonic, Mario, Trine, JD4, etc... were all fine).

Is your ISP throttling large downloads? Some of the ISPs here do that.

I ran through a bunch of html5 speed tests with different servers across NA on my laptop and wiiU both on the same wiifi router.

speedof.me was about the same as yours, however, I had almost parity when using other tests like
testmy.net and using a variety of servers (some network hops are worse than others). I could not find a local test in HTML5 (I can in flash... but then could not compare)

try testmy.net and see if it is better or the same.

This.

What a concise and elaborated post. Glad to read that.

Seriously, nintendo haters just can´t get enough of their hate. Just blame everything to Nintendo and that´s all.

I have a very slow connection, but never had any real problem with downloading software for WiiU, so far

If/when you find a solution could you pm me? I will do the same if I do.

I know most people always like to see ninty as the one creating but who brought the idea of online gaming and any sort of e-store to consoles? Wasn't that MS? So essentially, nintendo is copying now....like everyone does whenever a good idea is introduced in any industry.

Well, online isn't something that you can sue over is it? No. Nintendo's Wii Motion and 3DS has been sued, and copied numerous times,"copying" microsoft's online intergration hasn't been sued once. That's like Applebee's suing O'Charley's for using sprite as a drink choice dude. And if you want to go that far the first home console to be able to go online to download games was the NES but the ability wasn't used until the SNES. The idea was only released in Japan and it allowed you to download titles like a remake of Dragon Quest 1&2, BS Super Ninja Kun, and BS Excitebike if you want to go that way. But hey, online was even on Dreamcast but not an eshop. I don't think Nintendo wants to copy anybody. If anything the last and this generation has shown that ebuilliently. No one thought of motion controls, or a tablet based controller and I'm guessing that it won't be copied soon due to high price of the controller. If Nintendo wanted to copy, they'd copy themselves.

You know man, I understand you're frustration. We all love nintendo and want them to stay around but why oh why can't they be forward thinking!!! They want this console to be around for 5-7 years and they give us that terribley low bandwidth smartphone ram, a powerpc processor from 1999 (Basically took the Wii CPU, doubled the clock speed, and gave it 3 cores and some more cache.) I think they will be ok this gen, but I really can't stand the way they are doing things. Also giving us 8gb of slow flash storage, and then taking up 6gb of it with the OS. And then there is no ethernet, and even worse, USB 3.0. This is gonna be a console nintendo will have to make a revision on in the next few years with better ram, more storage, and usb 3.0. I know they've never done something like that before but still! It's the same way on 3ds. The system has decent visuals but when my ipod from 2009 has a higher clock speed and screen resolution, you know somethings wrong. I love the gamepad so much, but If ninty could have just done a couple things differently i'd be happy. 

1. High Bandwidth memory!!!

2. USB 3.0!

3. A new processor architecture! (This isn't a big deal if developers utilize it properly but developers are used to doing things differently)

4. Give us a System under $300 that has graphics that are superior to a noticeable degree, to be a middle ground between last gen and next gen

Exactly, people need the basics right, if you dont have USB 3.0 you are nobody.

Why do people gripe so about stuff that I can't even notice while playing the game. I thought that's what game consoles were made for: games. And how fun they are determines the console's use. The NES-SNES days were awesome. When people just played games for how fun and interesting it was. Whatever the complaint is about the Wii U, I rest assured that when Nintendo comes out with their big guns we'll be like "What was I complaining about again?" It has happened to me several times. Especially when I saw the Wii and how stupid I thought the motion controls were. Then I played Twilight Princess and was like "Motion what?" Nintendo is just trying to be reasonable at this point in time. It's not like Nintendo is blind and can't see what Sony and Microsoft are putting into their consoles. They obviously have a different perspective on gaming, and they've always been put in a class on their own for that. Mr. Miyamoto spoke this profound speech, “having only ferocious dinosaurs. They might fight and hasten their own extinction”. Just think about what he's trying to say. It's the truth if I've ever seen it.