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zachnelson

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My internet is working fine, and on this connection I'm not behind a funny firewall or anything that blocks the MAS.

It just sits at this screen and "checks" for new software for hours and hours...
 

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Sdreed91

macrumors 6502
Oct 10, 2011
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Have you tried closing your Internet connection then reconnecting and checking for software? Also are there many people sharing your connection causing you to lose bandwidth?

You should also file a bug report just in case it is an error because well it is a beta.
 

3282868

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Jan 8, 2009
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I agree. Have a current gen 12-Core Mac Pro running the latest DP3.2 update. Software Update takes a long time to check system/app versions and report back. There's also been an annoying bug since Lion 10.7.1 in which updated apps still report as needed update(s) in the Mac App Store. Could be server issues. Already reported bugs to Apple engineers, it's a known issue, sure it will be resolved.
 

jabbawok

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Sep 30, 2004
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Poor performance (although I haven't experienced any) may be down to smaller capacity.
Apple probably has a massive array of load balanced, multiply redundant servers hosting production OS updates and a much smaller set of servers just for beta updates. It's good practice to have as much separation as possible between beta and production environments.
 

PurrBall

macrumors 65816
Oct 25, 2007
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Indianapolis
I agree. Have a current gen 12-Core Mac Pro running the latest DP3.2 update. Software Update takes a long time to check system/app versions and report back. There's also been an annoying bug since Lion 10.7.1 in which updated apps still report as needed update(s) in the Mac App Store. Could be server issues. Already reported bugs to Apple engineers, it's a known issue, sure it will be resolved.

Mine's been wicked slow ever since Snow Leopard. I just ran SU on my Lion mac and my ML mac, and the ML mac was significantly faster.
 
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