mountain lion download stuck?

How can you tell it sticks at 53.25MB? I mean, is there somewhere to check the progress apart from watching the progress bars in the mountain lion symbol or in the Launchpad icon? Mine are still pea-sized and haven't lengthened in 30 minutes.

Anthony- if you go to the purchases tab you will see it.

It seems that most people are getting a slow but steady download. However there's a couple of us in the UK who find it just hangs or returns an error when it hits 53.25MB. 😟

Chek in the purchases tab of the app store. You will see progress at the top of the page for Mountain Lion.

Ah thanks hyndman, that's very helpful, just 11 hours 43 minutes to go!

Oops, thanks Screaming.Pict too!

Greetings,

I downloded ML about an hour and a half ago, and it took 33 minutes to complete the download. It started off slow, as yours did, but then it took right off.

Install time was short, but I didn't time it - maybe 25 minutes. All is working as advertised, so far. I've never had a problem with any of the new OS X versions, but then I clear caches, do a repair permissions, shut down running startups, etc, before I install major updates.

Cheers,

M.

Hyndman- I connected to my Mac at home and re-ran the purchase there and the download has happily run straight past the 53.25MB level that we were hitting. My download at work is still dying at 53.25MB so it must be something to do with the specific Apple download server that our ISPs are connecting to (the download was failing through Verizon and BT, working on a different machine at home through Virgin Media).

One more in the UK. Tried on two Macs - both stop at 53.25MB.

Best spent £13.99 ever. 🙂

Taboozed, hyndman; What connections are you using?

In my case I'm behind an ISA2007 firewall.

Taboozed- if you can find a different mac on a different connection then that's your best bet (get the App store to download the installer and then copy it over with a memory stick). Small hope, I know, but it's all I can suggest.

I'll try when I get home. I'm on BT both at home and work, so I'm not holding great hopes. Hoping someone may fix it by tomorrow, don't really want to waste hours trying to fix it myself.

Thanks

Tabooze - I'm wondering if it's something to do with my corporate firewall as this is a problem that others have had with other apple downloads from the office. The only weird thing for me was that it was happening when I then connected to our BT broadband test network as well, but it could be that the first download somehow tainted something so that switching to the broadband connection didn't help.

Ahhh haaaa. Looks as if BT may have issues. That was the ISP at work where I was failing. Wonder of they are deliberately blocking. I am off home to merrily install on Virgin Media I hope.

Don't jump too high- if it were BT issues we'd be seeing a lot more than the 4 of us with this issue. Additionally my initial download attempt was on my office's Verizon MPLS connection (although they could be using a BT exit to the Interwebs).

Ok,

Download this,

http://www.hotspotshield.com/

Then retry the download once its installed.

Download the App,

Uninstall Hotpsotsheild if you dont want it anymore.

Worked for me.

Found the resolution here. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1410290