Ultra Slow Catalina Download

i've restarted the download 3 to 4 times, but the download works for 3 hours or so with less than half downloaded. I tried again early this morning and got a download time of 15 minutes. Apple needs to fix this. I've not seen download speeds from a major tech player like this in many years.

I tested my download speed while downloading and was getting a steady 70-75Mbps

My download speed is 355 Mbps and mine has been going fo 4 hours and I only have 1.48 GB downloaded so far. The best I can get is 21 hours remaining. I’ve cancelled and restarted multiple times with no improvement and even restarted the machine (2016 MacBook Pro). Very frustrating.

BTW, is it safe to do a restart when it’s just downloading and not installing? I didn’t think about that before I did it.

After waiting over 6 hours,it had only downloaded 4.8 of the 8.09G. I saw dialbrain's response, clicked the x, it searched for updates, I started the update again, and it finished in 15 minutes. Amazing. How does restarting it make it faster?

This really helped especially after experiencing the damaged download error as well - and having to remove the first download!

It took a few times of pausing the download with the "x" and once having to restart the download, but it worked. I think there's more of a problem than busy servers.

Thanks for the help.

This worked for me. I had 21 hours to go (on a 200 Mbps connection). Followed this advice (took several tries) and the download sped up tremendously (though I do note that it has slowed down again).

Hello Everyone.

For what it's worth, been fighting this problem all day. I have a 1Gb connection and it was downloading at no more then 300Kbit.

Finally hit me to try from a different region. I went and used my VPN Connection - connected to the west coast and next thing you know I'm downloading at 550-650Mbps.

Download went from taking a day to download to 15 minutes. None the less might be worth doing that.

FWIIW, sometimes cancelling the download then restarting it will speed things up. Mouse to the right of the progress bar to see the "x".

Patience is a virtue.

You're welcome.

Same here, took me around 20 tries to finally be able to download it.

Same issue here - multiple retries, shutdown Mac, stop download and try to restart. Very disappointing.

In general, because it connects to a less busy server.

You're welcome. If it's more than busy servers I don't know what it could be. I've only had to do it once on one computer in years.

Just keep hitting the x and starting again.