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Anyone experiencing terrible download times
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Maybe try a direct download link? http://www.redmondpie.com/ios-8-download-links-for-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch-released-direct-links/
I came home for lunch at 12:10pm. I plug in my iPhone to my iMac and used iTunes to check for updates.
iOS 8 was downloaded in 6 minutes and installed on my iPhone 5S in another 10.
The quickest and easiest update ever. Of course no one was probably online at the time, so we'll how this goes tonight when everyone is home from work and school and using Netflix & Youtube & downloading iOS 8 when I do my iPad Air and my wife's iPhone.
iOS 8 was downloaded in 6 minutes and installed on my iPhone 5S in another 10.
The quickest and easiest update ever. Of course no one was probably online at the time, so we'll how this goes tonight when everyone is home from work and school and using Netflix & Youtube & downloading iOS 8 when I do my iPad Air and my wife's iPhone.
Thanks, but I shouldn't have to, apple should be able to roll something out without constant screw ups.
I mean, surely its common sense to roll at 10am local time by country, hence titrating the server loads throughout the 24 hour period instead of this mess. It's becoming increasingly frequent now that my main experience as an apple user is frustration.
Jeez same story every time...just wait one (1) day and your download and install will be done in 3 minutes...
How is millions of people downloading an update Apple's fault? Quit being so impatient. Do you blame the department of transportation for rush hour traffic too?
On my iPhone 5s: "Estimated time remaining: 39 hours!"
I was about to make a post about how no one could beat my estimated time remaining of 15 hours, but you sir win
Just updated my iPad Air. Downloaded in 6 minutes, installed and is now rebooting. Smooth as my iPhone 5S update earlier this afternoon. I guess Apple's new CDN network is crazy fast and that Comcast made good on those big payments Apple gives them for bandwidth.
Because planning a three year old could do could easily resolve the problem. This is not a problem that must occur, it's a problem that Apple create by how they release upgrades. So frustration is entirely reasonable.
I got lucky in the afternoon and updated my 5s and rMini at a friends house with comcast.
Last night tried to update a iPod Touch5g and parents mini. Tried for like 4 hrs, could not get either to start a download. Even tried downloading via itunes. Will try again late tonight, no rush just figured all the servers were busy.
Last night tried to update a iPod Touch5g and parents mini. Tried for like 4 hrs, could not get either to start a download. Even tried downloading via itunes. Will try again late tonight, no rush just figured all the servers were busy.