Yosemite download is insanely slow (nothing wrong with my network)

Im also in the Vancouver area and had this same slow download issue. Tried the DNS change to googles and issue was still there. What made mine go full speed was pausing the download, and instead of hitting resume, I went to the featured page on the App Store and clicked the download button on Yosemite. Finished the remainIMG 3+ gb in 40mins. No idea why this worked for me.

now I'm having the slow download/fail update on my iPad. 124 hours to go it says then stops after 3 hours.

Same situation! In Vancouver, Telus. Tried to change the DNS to no avail. Still getting 5 day download times. The app store pause/restart hasn't worked. even Sennikov's idea. Any more ideas?

Downloading in 328k chunks about one a minute. Am I on dial-up?

I started my Yosemite download at 2:15 yesterday and it is still downloading. I got so concerned I called Apple. The only thing they recommend is to make sure you modem is connected directly to your computer and shut off Wi Fi on the computer; which I did. I can still use my cell phone with Wi Fi. The last thing they can do is have you take your computer into the store and they will install the Yosemite software. I live too far from their store so letting my computer run day and night. I am now at 2.59 GM and it is 7:49 PM.

I too am taking a long time to download and called Apple store. You can continue to download for two to four days, or take your computer into the store and have them install it for you. I live too far away. I started at 2:15 PM yesterday and it is 7:54 PM this evening and I am now at 2.59 GB. I don't understand why Apple didn't put this huge program on a disk for us to buy and install.

Once again, same situation. Dial-up speeds for Yosemite download.

Yesterday's download of XCode came down at the expected 45-50Mbit/s, but not for Yosemite.

I too, have tried changing the DNS servers etc, to no avail.

The problem seems to be common on Telus. I'm on Telus OpTik in Creston, BC

I did find a way around the problem. I paused the download in the App Store, then cranked up the VPN with an end-point in San Jose, CA and I went from an estimate of "5 days 10 hours" to approximately 1 hour.

So there is a major problem between Apple's Yosemite servers and Telus.

Kyle

Thanks Kyle - when you say "Cranked up the VPN" how do you go about doing that? Noob here.

I subscribe to a Virtual Private Network service that provides an encrypted link between my computer and an "end-point" provided by the service. Once I'm connected to the VPN my internet presence, IP address etc., is assigned at the end-point rather than my own ISP. So, in essence I'm going "around" the problem as the hiccup seems to be between Apple and Telus. My connection is now between Apple and the VPN provider's end-point in San Jose, CA.

Hope this helps!

Kyle

Tried Frank252's fix with Ryanbr's addition. No luck. I'm in Vancouver on Telus too. So I've just turned on the UBC vpn and download time has dropped from five days to one hour. Anyone with a UBC CWL can do this. Instructions for the vpn are at http://it.ubc.ca/services/email-voice-internet/myvpn/setup-documents.

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Well I left my computer completely untouched for a few hours and the download stalled. So I clicked Pause and Resume and now it is coming down at full speed. Best of luck to all the rest of you.

so is Telus somehow throttling the downloads from Apple's server???

in the 6 or 7 hours since I last posted, I came back to find it had downloaded maybe another 400MB or so... still crawling along with only about 1.8GB downloaded total so far after about a day and a half of trying (and pressing pause then resume every once in a while). still showing over 1 day remaining

I paused the download once more, and following the discussion above about VPN, I installed Hotspot Shield VPN - it has a 3 day free trial, virtual location set to USA. Took only a minute or two to install, then when I resumed the OS download, it immediately picked up speed.

now showing less than 20 min to go

Same for me (Telus near Vancouver). Has anyone contacted Telus about this issue? Sounds like some sort of caching issue on their end.

This is why we need physical media. I could've driven to the Apple Store & back and installed it a couple dozen times in the time it's taking to download it once. It's ridiculous. Quit trying to make the world totally dependent on the internet. I have 100+Mb/s service. I could get this same result with dialup.

Thanks for this tip. Working for me. Now showing less than 2 hrs. TELUS!!!

After reading the post about using VPN, I tried pausing the download, connecting to my work's VPN, and resuming it. It worked! I thought that was weird, so I paused the download, disconnected the VPN, and resumed. It was slow again. So I went back to using VPN, but it was just as slow. I ended up pausing and resuming it a bunch of times until it got fast again. So I'm guessing Apple has only so many servers, and they aren't distributing the load very well at all.