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Apple's servers holding up well so far

tmanto02

tmanto02

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Jun 5, 2011
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I am just updating my girlfriends iPad to iOS 7 and I am surprised how fast it is downloading, it says only 14 mins! I remember when mountain lion was released Apples servers were severely strained and extremely slow, however iOS 7 is downloading at my maximum bandwidth!

Good job Apple :D
 
Lucky you. I've been stuck trying to contact the servers for the last 45 minutes. Pretty close to giving up and trying again tomorrow.
 
tmanto02 said:
I am just updating my girlfriends iPad to iOS 7 and I am surprised how fast it is downloading, it says only 14 mins! I remember when mountain lion was released Apples servers were severely strained and extremely slow, however iOS 7 is downloading at my maximum bandwidth!

Good job Apple :D
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You say that now...around noon central time until about 6 it was undownloadable. But, it's working better than the iOS 5 launch. I couldn't update for a day or too.
 
I don't know what you are doing, but I can't get anything to download. Both my iPhone and iPad do not have enough free space to download over the air, so I have to download on my Mac.

First I could not get iTunes to download. Had to go apple.com and just download from there. Now I can't get iOS to download. It won't even go past "Contacting the iPad software update server. I have let it sit until it times out, restarted and had no luck.

Very frustrating.
 
tmanto02 said:
I am just updating my girlfriends iPad to iOS 7 and I am surprised how fast it is downloading, it says only 14 mins! I remember when mountain lion was released Apples servers were severely strained and extremely slow, however iOS 7 is downloading at my maximum bandwidth!

Good job Apple :D
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My download took around 90 minutes for the iPhone 4, that is bout 10x longer than it should. The servers barely handing on in my opinion. That said, there are likely millions if not tens of millions of phones updated tonight.
 
SteveAbootman said:
Lucky you. I've been stuck trying to contact the servers for the last 45 minutes. Pretty close to giving up and trying again tomorrow.
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Oh really? That sucks. I am in Australia, I'm not sure if that makes any difference, perhaps we access difference servers here
 
tmanto02 said:
Oh really? That sucks. I am in Australia, I'm not sure if that makes any difference, perhaps we access difference servers here
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Everyone is at work :) I do expect that there are separate servers throughout the world.
 
I waited until about 5 pm MST then decided, fingers crossed, to do the download. 20 minutes from start to finish. Not bad considering reading others' lengthy wait times.
 
It was weird...when I was downloading iOS 7 earlier this morning (10:30 am PST), I was able to download at max bandwidth as well. Only took 14 min to download, install took about 45 min though.
 
I updated but I can't sign into iCloud. Says that "unable to contact server".

Asia is waking up and trying to update to iOS 7 about now.
 
The App Store's been broken all day for me (blank pages, timeout messages, and supposedly no updates available despite a big red "3" on the app) so there are definitely still server issues. It's definitely server-side because I'm still on iOS 6!
 
I've been updating my Mom's iPhone 4 for 45 minutes. The highest "time remaining" was only 16 minutes.
 
tmanto02 said:
Oh really? That sucks. I am in Australia, I'm not sure if that makes any difference, perhaps we access difference servers here
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Just got it to download, installing now. Fingers crossed the iPad upgrade goes smoother. And yea, I'd bet you're hitting a different server farm than those of us on the east coast.
 
ddublu said:
It's 2013......how are they not able to anticipate load and demand?
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Um because there are millions of people trying to update at once. Im sure they anticipated this demand, just as I expected it to be slow. But I was pleasantly surprised :)
 
Apple servers holding up well so far? Christ almighty, it took me 4hrs just to get my damn phone activated when setting it up as NEW.

Obviously, the original poster was one of the lucky ones or completely oblivious to whats been going on with the sh!!T storm of problems that have been all of the NET today with people getting locked out of their iPhones----------->/*
 
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