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lcdbc4 Author

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

Hi all, I'm trying to upgrade to Yosemite from Mavericks, or rather, I have been trying for the last 2 days. The download from the Mac store is crawling at a crazy slow rate. I've pulled about 1GB in 2 days now. It seems to get like 1MB downloaded every few minutes and the Mac Store progress says there's like 4 days left.

I've run all sorts of speed checks on my network and nothing is out of the ordinary, I can go off and download other files at over 1 MB/sec right now.

I'm at a loss as to what to do, there's not really any support for how to find out what's going on and I don't think there's anywhere other than the Mac Store I can download this from.

Does anyone else have experience with extremely slow, persisting issues with the Mac Store downloads? Any suggestions?

Thank you

Posted on Oct 19, 2014 4:42 PM

79 replies

Sep 15, 2015 4:15 PM in response to Frank252

Thank you so much. Your solution was the right one. At first I thought that's impossible but it worked! Great!

Alex3745

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Sep 16, 2015 6:59 PM in response to sennikov

I just did your trick 2 minutes ago and already downloaded 2gb. Going at over a GB a minute! Unbelievable considering before I started searching google for what was the issue with the slow download I managed 50Mb in 45 min on a 50Mbps connection via Rogers.

drtyrell

Level 1

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Oct 21, 2015 2:53 PM in response to lcdbc4

I'm experiencing the same thing with today's security patch. I downloaded iTunes at 15meg/sec no problem. The security patch is downloading at .1mb/sec. They are throttling things. No need to touch a router or network preferences. The pipe works fine for other updates from Apple central.

Mar 18, 2016 4:37 AM in response to Frank252

A voice from India! Thanks a lot!!

Tried to update to El Capitan.

In the beginning it was showing 5 days .. 😐

But now 1 hour 5 mins 🙂

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