Installation of High Sierra on Wiped Hard Drive Frozen

So I recently got a new computer and so wiped my old computer and am trying to reinstall Mac OS onto the hard drive, but it keeps getting frozen and not progressing. This has happened several times when it's been stuck not progressing for 8 hours or so until I just cancel it and restart the process. This time it has gotten further than ever before at around 80% done and it says 1 hour and 16 minutes remaining, but it's been stuck like this for more than 12 hours.

For reference the model is Late 2011 Macbook Pro I think, Model No. A1278, Serial No. C1*******TY3. I have a stable internet connection that hasn't had any issues with this device and I have it plugged in to charge all the time while it is downloading.

If you have any ideas on how to fix this please help.