Internet Recovery is painfully slow
Is there a reason why Internet Recovery is so painfully slow? Brand new MacBook Pro*, connected to Ethernet (via the Belkin USB-C adapter from the Apple Store); speed test shows 85 mbps down/93 mbps up which should be more than sufficient. Downloading the installer from the App Store over the same connection on an older MacBook Pro took less than 10 minutes. I'm 4 hours into the Internet Recovery download and it is still showing 30 minutes to go (and the count keeps increasing over time!)
*If the recovery partition worked, I wouldn't need to do this in the first place. Ran into the "Could not create a Preboot Volume for APFS" issue when trying to wipe and start fresh after multiple failures to import user data from an older Mac. This is pretty depressing, I literally unboxed the machine this morning and have not been able to do a thing with it.
MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, macOS High Sierra (10.13)