App store Downloads with iMac

[Tbdbuckeyeitl]

I have an iMac 3.4 i7. I also have dsl 6.0 speed. I wanted to download a game that was 4 gb. The time said over 3 hours, is this normal? If not problem with iMac? Thanks

 

[GGJstudios]

I have an iMac 3.4 i7. I also have dsl 6.0 speed. I wanted to download a game that was 4 gb. The time said over 3 hours, is this normal? If not problem with iMac? Thanks

Did you verify you're actually getting those speeds, or are you going by what your ISP tells you? Go to speedtest.net to check your actual speed.

 

[Tbdbuckeyeitl]

Does it sound to long?

 

[Hublar]

App Store is extremely slow

It's slow for me to.

Hub

 

[Tbdbuckeyeitl]

Anyone else download games from App Store. Does times sound normal?

 

[Bear]

I have an iMac 3.4 i7. I also have dsl 6.0 speed. I wanted to download a game that was 4 gb. The time said over 3 hours, is this normal? If not problem with iMac? Thanks

Presuming by DSL 6.0 you mean 6megabits per second, then presuming you are getting full speed and not accounting for anything else that is going on ove rthe net nor account for protocol overhead on the download, you will get 45 megabytes a minute or about 2.6 GB an hour. Allowing for protocol overhead and other things going on, I would expect it take at least 2 hours to download 4GB.

Since we don't know if you're actually getting a full 6Mb/s since advertised and actual speeds can be different on DSL, I'd say 3 hours is quite reasonable for a 4GB download.

 

[bmcgrath]

I never have issues with the Mac app store.

I have a 1gig connection in my apartment and there's times that the Mac App store/iTunes will actually max my connection out...