App Store Slow

I'm having the exact same problem on a retina MacBook Pro I bought today. Updates and downloads are taking forever.

The problem is because you're on a CenturyLink Wifi Connection. The problem is CenturyLink. I suggest you go to their facebook page and voice your displeasure and request that they look into the problem. Everyone I know that is on CenturyLink is having the same problem that you and I are having. You can't download anything on WIFI from iTunes store or App Store, or any Apple Updates, but it works just fine when you're on a different ISP or through your data connection for your cell phone. Again, the problem is CenturyLink

That isn't the problem. I'm not using a CenturyLink Wifi Connection.

i agree ... its an apple servers issue and not my ISP and/or hardware within my topology (e.g. router, wifi, bridge, etc.)

iphone 6, ipad 3, 2012 mbp ... all slow ... my windows 7 updates in parallels runs QUICK ... and i can stream video (youtube, amazon) without any hesistation ... both CL and speedtest.net show my connection as 20mb down and 1.5 up ... so its plenty fast.

took my iphone 6 ... reset network settings ... still, app store download takes nearly 24 hours for a given app (regardless of size) to download.

QA at apple since i switched from win to osx/ios has been getting worse ... it seems like they have a bunch of clowns and probably a territorial war where camp A blames camp B and vise-versa ... contemplating re-imagining my 2012 MBP to windows 10 and fore-going any OSX software at this point ...

disappointed in quality

For what it is worth, I'm see the same kind of slow performance from the App store and iTunes downloads. I had to put a new hard drive in my mid 2011 iMac. After I installed the new hard drive, I installed Mountain Lion. Once I booted up, I downloaded Yosemite. This first download of Yosemite went very fast. After I installed Yosemite, I had extremely slow App download speed. For this reason, I did another clean install and went back to Mountain Lion. Now, I can't get any downloads from the App store to go fast (example, a 22Mb file can take a day to download). However, if I go to the Apple download site and download the updates manually, I get very good download speeds. All other internet speeds/test show my download at around 50Mbps and my upload around 3.3Mbps.

Same here, I have tried everything, from switching DNS to Google/OpenDNS, rebooting router, etc. I'm getting 25.71mbps download in the internet health test. But about .2kbps from the iTunes store. Hours to download an app, 30 minutes to download a song.

I'm not using CenturyLink.