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bhandarip1978

Q: Downloading Xcode 8 is taking forever..

I have been trying since this afternoon.. very disappointed! shows more than 24 hours left on download. what is going on? is everyone around the world trying to download it at same time? I really thought Apple was prepared for the load, apparently not!

iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Sep 13, 2016 5:19 PM

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  • by VikingOSX,

    VikingOSX VikingOSX Sep 13, 2016 6:45 PM in response to bhandarip1978
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    Sep 13, 2016 6:45 PM in response to bhandarip1978

    There are millions of people attempting to download Xcode 8 right now. No one can plan for that kind of network or server load.

     

    My download took about an hour, and I am only 8 hops on the net outside of Apple. If there is any other form of network issues between you and the download servers, that will add to the gnashing of teeth.

  • by etresoft,

    etresoft etresoft Sep 13, 2016 7:58 PM in response to bhandarip1978
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    Sep 13, 2016 7:58 PM in response to bhandarip1978

    Hello bhandarip1978,

    Where are you downloading it from? Apple has plenty of capacity and a world-wide content-delivery system. But their code is a mess. I used to get horrible speeds downloading App Store things from Canada. But if I turned on my USA VPN, the download would run 50 times faster. Normally, a VPN will slow down your connection. But whatever Apple was doing wrong in the content delivery network was causing a 100x slowdown that dwarfed any slowdown associated with the VPN.

     

    I haven't seen this problem recently, but that doesn't mean Apple fixed the bug. It could be just moved and appearing for different people, like you.