"Recovery server could not be contacted" Error Message

This worked for me as well, pretty strange 😎 thanks Jo

I had the same issue. No luck upon many retries. Same error message. What worked for me was simply restarting the computer. Not a techie guy! Glad the easy street worked for me.

Been having this issue and then realised I was no longer connected to the internet. Chose my connection, had to put in password again, and it started downloading!

Hello! I had the same problem. I connected to the wifi connection and then this problem was solved for me.

looks like your problem is different from the topic, judging by your problems you have a slow internet connection, do a speed test and see what you come up with

Thank you. That solved it. Replaced the SSD and did a PARM reset and that may have clobbered my date, which was correct earlier today.

In the Utilities menu, launch Terminal.

Then run: `ntpdate -u time.apple.com`

This will update the system time. Once I did that, it worked for me.

This totally worked!

I was stuck with the same problem for 2 days!

Just as Desmet said, I used the terminal to set the current date and time and it worked!

I kept attempting to reset my laptop and was having the same issue. I just had to log into my WiFi and it started working. Hope this helps? :-)

Thanks.

Setting to the correct time and date fixed the first error message issue

Hi friend... in what time zone should I set ? From where I purchased or from UTC?

Wi-fi is available, however, you’ll find the fastest (and likely most secure) connection will be found by directly connecting your machine using an Ethernet cable directly to your modem (or router).

I clicked on the wifi logo on the top right of the screen and joined my network, seems to be downloading the OS fine now

This is very helpful I just tried this method use not my Time zone but the UTC time zone and it

Make sure that your internet have connected.