mountain lion download stuck?

Go to the App Store,

Click Purchases

Find Mountain Lion. Cancel and Delete, Retsart.

Once you use a VPN or Hotspot Shiled or Proxy, You will get past the 53.25megs.

To expand on Inyourbus' reply. The problem seems to be either with your ISP or the network you are downloading through (are you going through a corporate firewall?)

The solution is to either;

1) Try a different connection. I got it to download through my VirginMedia connection at home, it was my work connection that was failing

OR

2) get a free trial with a VPN service, connect to that and download through it (what that does is tunnels out through your ISP to a different 'virtual' ISP- I"m oversimplifying but that's the basics).

The VPN service that inyourbus suggested previously was http://www.hotspotshield.com/

Also in UK stuck at 53.25MB. Has anyone found a way around this yet. It is not a speed issue because if you have the purcahses page open it hangs for a while at 53.25MB then responds with An error has occured.

Read the whole thread before posting.

I also am in the UK and having the same problem with Mountain Lion, it just does not want me to download it. It gets stuck at 53.25mb. Pffft how annoying!

What is wrong with you people....

There is nothing wrong with "you people". They are merely trying to find a quick answer to the 53.25MB problem and a quick answer. Yes, if they read the thread they will find the answer. You have to realise that most people want a quick fix.

If they read back through the thead there are several thoughts that it is related to specific ISPs. For example I had the issue on a BT business account. Yet when I went home I was able to download straight away on a Virgin Media account.

That's all. And it's not worth name calling in forums. It gets old.

Yea, there is something wrong with somone coming to a forum, finding a thread and posting before reading anything (not even the previous post) from said thread.

Some threads on the Apple forum are 100s of pages long. This thread has only 4 Pages currently. Not a long job to get through to find a solution in my oppinion. So it is still a quick fix.

I am just puzzled why it seems to stop at the same spot for so many people? Mine was the same and I got past it with hotspotshield, but that still doesn't answer the question about the stop position.

I then removed the VPN thing and carried on for the full download without any problems! Very odd.

Also on BT business broadband. I guess one of thier cache servers has a corrupt copy of the download.

As has been posted earlier, use an alternative broadband if you can or go through a proxy or vpn such as hotspot shield.

BT Business Broadband definately seems to be a common theme related to the 53.25MG issue

My ISP Was also BT Business and I had the same 53.25mb

Left for 8 hours last night and didnt get any response whatsoever. Still stuck on "waiting". Have tried from multiple locations so not network, have rebooted multiple times, have restarted app store multiple times. This is sh1t...

I cannot see any responses from Apple on this issue even though it looks like the servers in the shiny new data centre are hosed.

alpha21mike who is your ISP?

Alphamike- there's very few people with this problem, so waiting for Apple to fix this isn't going to help you.

Hyndman is asking what ISP you are using because we are pretty sure this is NOT an Apple issue- almost everyone with this problem has been using BT (specifically BT business broadband) as their ISP. It seems likely that BT have a caching server that has somehow picked up a corrupted version of the download and has not yet timed it out.

The solutions/workarounds to this have been posted several times in this thread. I won't repeat them, just read up.