Further to my last post, I just started the download again and timed 1mb took 27 seconds
On a good day, I can get 1 mb per second with other downloads from other sites. Tim On 01/08/2012, at 1:58 PM, Tim Law wrote: > Hi Ronni, > > Re Network - Telstra Cable. Generally get results of between 12 - 18Mbps on > Speedtest.net > > In the App Store, I purchase Mountain Lion then clicked on Purchases pane and > watched the paint dry as the download started .... > Other updates, such as Pages and Numbers were coming through at 350kbps each > at the same time, just Mountain Lion was so slow. > > The 'time left' would vary from two hours to 2 days, fluctuating up and down > each few minutes. This went on for a couple of days. Some of that time, about > 6 hours, we were shaped back to 56kbps, but once the normal speed returned > overnight, I noticed no significant difference in the speed the numbers were > changing on the download. > > Now and again, I would pause the download, then restart it after a couple of > minutes to see if I got a better connection - if that makes any difference I > don't know, but it never made any difference to the speed I was getting. > > The final crunch came when I had got close to the end and then a message came > up in the AppStore that the download had failed, or stopped. It was in red. > and the line that had shown how much I had downloaded disappeared like it had > never downloaded anything. > > It's not the first time I've had problems with largish downloads from the App > Store or iTunes. My son tried three or four times on his PC to get the last > updates through for his iPad and iPod Touch updates. And I had to have > several goes to download a Combo update a few months ago. It's just not > reliable. Downloads just stop and disappear, gone to cyberspace. Yes I looked > for the 'Paused' in the App Store. It's not there. > > Network is Telstra Cable > Cable Modem is a Motorola Surfboard SB5101U > Router is Snap Gear 300 > Computer is Mac Mini Late 2009 > OSX is 10.7.4 > > Normally downloads and network connections are adequately fast and reliable. > > I'm in the middle of really needing my computer to work properly for me now, > and don't need the distraction of this, so I was going to leave it for a > while. I had assumed it was caused by server load. But if yours took 4 hours > - wow, that's shows it CAN work and is fast (ish) :-) > > Tim > > > > > On 01/08/2012, at 11:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> Hi Tim, >> >> When you mention "the Download fails"... what happened, did you get a error >> message? >> Or has the download just paused / stopped? >> >> If when downloading OS X Mountain Lion and the download is stopped, click on >> Launchpad in the Dock and you will find a Mountain Lion icon with the word >> “paused” below it. >> >> Click on the icon and the download will continue. >> >> I found I had to do this often during the course of the Mountain Lion >> downloading. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> On 01/08/2012, at 10:52 AM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: >> >>> OMG what sort of Network are you on Tim? >>> My download of Mountain Lion took 4 hours (& I was frustrated :) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >>> >>> On 01/08/2012, at 10:44 AM, Tim Law <t...@peoplehelp.com.au> wrote: >>> >>>> Arggggh!!!! >>>> >>>> 300mb to go after two days plus of it dribbling in, and the download >>>> fails. >>>> >>>> Grumble grumble. >>>> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
