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Apple Utilizing Own Content Delivery Network to Help Deliver iOS 8 Update

Giant fail!

iOS 8 came out 3 days ago and I still cannot download it on my iPhone 5s, my wife's iPhone 5, and my wife's iPad Air. I have Verizon Fios internet speeds of 50/50 and everything else works great. I am able to start the download, but it says it'll take at least 24 hours. After a few minutes, it times out.
 
If this is the case I am not very impressed. A couple of days later I am downloading IOS 8 to do a phone restore and it is downloading at around 25Mbps to 40Mbpx in a 120Mbps connection. I would be impressed if I could download at around 100Mbps.
 
No problems for me

Downloaded and installed in under 30 minutes per device for me on a 50 Mbps connection with Time Warner. My friend on AT&T U-Verse, who lives about a mile away from me, had to let it download overnight.
 
gadgetguy03 said:
Downloaded and installed in under 30 minutes per device for me on a 50 Mbps connection with Time Warner. My friend on AT&T U-Verse, who lives about a mile away from me, had to let it download overnight.
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It has nothing to do with your ISP download speeds and everything to do with the node you get connected to.

As an example: I tried downloading iOS 8 twice yesterday through iTunes. Both times it was downloading at around 40kbps and giving me 18 hours to download. I aborted both tries. Then tried downloading through the phone, on my same home wifi DSL network (about 12Mbps download) and it took 30 minutes to download. Today, my wife tried downloading iOS 8 for iPad over home wifi and it said it would take 8 hours to download and finally crashed. She tried again a couple hours later over same home network and it downloaded in 20 minutes.

It's all about getting a good Apple server and not the size (I mean speed) of your service. To be fair, I have also seen speculation that there may be a firewall interaction with iTunes that limits it download speed.
 
Wonder why it still took over four hours to download on a 40 mpbs connection...
 
Pages update downloaded 437 MB in 5 minutes. iPhone update said 4 hours, then I read this thread, canceled the download and restarted it after counting to 10, visualizing my 'happy place', etc., and now downloading with only 30 minutes remaining.

[...]

Uhm, 38 minutes...

40 minutes...

39 minutes...

*fingers crossed* Hopefully I have a good 'node' now.

SoCal, Cox Cable ISP if anyone's interested
 
I am still having MAJOR problems downloading for my iPad 2. Been trying for two days now.

I was finally able to get the update for the iPhone after trying for a couple of days.

What an effing joke this is. I am so damn frustrated right now :mad:
 
DCIFRTHS said:
I am still having MAJOR problems downloading for my iPad 2. Been trying for two days now.

I was finally able to get the update for the iPhone after trying for a couple of days.

What an effing joke this is. I am so damn frustrated right now :mad:
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I really don't think you're going to be happy with iOS 8 on an A5-based device like an iPad 2. And you'll only be able to revert back to iOS 7 for a few more days...
 
John.B said:
I really don't think you're going to be happy with iOS 8 on an A5-based device like an iPad 2. And you'll only be able to revert back to iOS 7 for a few more days...
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How would I revert back if I decide I want to? I didn't think that was an option...
 
DCIFRTHS said:
How would I revert back if I decide I want to? I didn't think that was an option...
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It's pretty easy. Instructions here (random webpages, no affiliation, etc.):

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2014/09/downgrade-ios-8-ios-7-1-2.html
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/09/20/how-to-downgrade-ios-8-to-ios-7-1-2/
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/downgrade-ios-8-ios-7-1-2-iphone-095507996.html

If you do want to go back, do NOT delay, Apple will stop signing the iOS 7.1.2 software, maybe as soon as tomorrow.

Note that it doesn't matter if you have saved a copy of the .ipsw for your device, once Apple stops digitally "signing" iOS 7.1.2 you won't be able to complete the restore process and you'll be stuck on iOS 8 from that point forward.
 
John.B said:
It's pretty easy. Instructions here (random webpages, no affiliation, etc.):

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2014/09/downgrade-ios-8-ios-7-1-2.html
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/09/20/how-to-downgrade-ios-8-to-ios-7-1-2/
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/downgrade-ios-8-ios-7-1-2-iphone-095507996.html

If you do want to go back, do NOT delay, Apple will stop signing the iOS 7.1.2 software, maybe as soon as tomorrow.

Note that it doesn't matter if you have saved a copy of the .ipsw for your device, once Apple stops digitally "signing" iOS 7.1.2 you won't be able to complete the restore process and you'll be stuck on iOS 8 from that point forward.
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Thank you very much for the detailed information!
 
Verizon FIOS seems to be the culprit

Everyone that I know that uses Verizon FIOS seems to have download messages (for iOS 8) of 11 or more hours- that's from Thursday to now (Wednesday)!

I guess they don't have Chloe O'Brien (24 ref) working for them...

0815 said:
did not work for me very well - was as bad as the last few years - timed out twice, took many hours to download.

As much as I love Apples hardware and software - when it comes to services, they a just doing a horrible job.
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