Away from home updating?

[BetsyMePoocho]

Our satellite internet provider does not allow us enough daily bandwidth to update to iOS5. We are only allowed 400Mb download in a 24 hour period and the download speed is about 1Mb/second.

i am planning a trip to a friends house who has high speed internet, unlimited download, and the current version of iTunes. At her house, using her iTunes, can I upgrade my iPad to iOS5?

Thanks!

 

[fuxl]

Our satellite internet provider does not allow us enough daily bandwidth to update to iOS5. We are only allowed 400Mb download in a 24 hour period and the download speed is about 1Mb/second.

i am planning a trip to a friends house who has high speed internet, unlimited download, and the current version of iTunes. At her house, using her iTunes, can I upgrade my iPad to iOS5?

Thanks!

The update is only like 40Mb if you do it over the air!

 

[BetsyMePoocho]

We have not installed the original iOS5 yet. We are still on the previous iOS.

Is the 40mb an update to the already installed iOS5?

We saw that to install the actual iOS5 was something like 700Mb...

 

[Ashwood11]

iOS 5 must be done thru iTunes, then the update to 5.0.1 can be done OTA.

 

[BetsyMePoocho]

OK, back to the original question...

Can I update my iPad to iOS5 at my friends house via her iTunes?

Or does it need to be done through iTunes on my own computer? (which we cannot accomplish due to restrictions from our internet provider).

Thanks.

 

[mattburley7]

OK, back to the original question...

Can I update my iPad to iOS5 at my friends house via her iTunes?

Or does it need to be done through iTunes on my own computer? (which we cannot accomplish due to restrictions from our internet provider).

Thanks.

bring your own computer to your friends house and go on there wifi and download iOS 5 via iTunes?

 

[Thetonyk123]

bring your own computer to your friends house and go on there wifi and download iOS 5 via iTunes?

yes bring your computer and do it otherwise everything will be erased. OTA Updates though are small once you iOS 5!

 

[BetsyMePoocho]

I am actually 1000 miles from friend's house so I will not be taking my computer there, just the iPad when I visit.

What will be 'everything erased' if I try to update the iPad to iOS5 through friend's computer?

Thank you for your help.

 

[verwon]

Holy crap! I wouldn't be paying for an ISP like that, personally.

 

[BetsyMePoocho]

Retired to a very beautiful rural place.
Only ISP option is what we have.
It works fine for all of our needs (e-mail, shopping, etc) EXCEPT downloading big stuff.

 

[donnaw]

You can update via her computer. If she has iTunes already installed just be sure to sign her out of the store and sign yourself in. Also be sure to backup your iPad before updating. Then you can update.

She may need to do some cleanup afterward to remove your backups etc from her computer but you can do a search and locate the backups and delete them.

 

[OneMike]

you can also pause and resume downloads. I haven't tried this over a 24 hour period so I'm not sure if there is a session limit.

If not you can do t xxxMB in the first 24 hours. Pause it in iTunes and finish the rest later.

 

[BetsyMePoocho]

Thank you very much donnaw and OneMike That was very helpful information!

Would you happen to know how many Mb the iSO5 update actually is?

We are reckoning that by pausing the download, and disconnecting from the iTune computer, we should still be able to use the iPad as we have not installed anything as of yet, right?

 

[mattburley7]

why didnt i think of this before.. when your at your friends house download the iOS 5 firmware that you need and transfer it to a usb drive and when you get home transfer it from the usb drive to computer and install

https://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/10/apple-releases-ios-5-0-1-to-address-battery-life-issues/

download one of the direct links in this thread. you can go from iOS 4 to 5.0.1

 

[Wolffie]

This is what I did for my Aunt.
I downloaded iTunes and the *.ipsw file for her ipad2
then took the data on a USB drive and loaded it on her computer and installed
No issues. Make sure the USB drive is formatted in FAT 32 so all computers can read the files.

why didnt i think of this before.. when your at your friends house download the iOS 5 firmware that you need and transfer it to a usb drive and when you get home transfer it from the usb drive to computer and install

https://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/10/apple-releases-ios-5-0-1-to-address-battery-life-issues/

download one of the direct links in this thread. you can go from iOS 4 to 5.0.1

 

[BetsyMePoocho]

Wolffie and mattburley7 thank you very much!

Looks like you have provided the solution to our problem.

We appreciate your input.

 

[The General]

you can also pause and resume downloads. I haven't tried this over a 24 hour period so I'm not sure if there is a session limit.

If not you can do t xxxMB in the first 24 hours. Pause it in iTunes and finish the rest later.

Yeah, or find a torrent for the firmware package and use that. You can definitely pause and resume torrents.

 

[gtmac]

why didnt i think of this before.. when your at your friends house download the iOS 5 firmware that you need and transfer it to a usb drive and when you get home transfer it from the usb drive to computer and install

https://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/10/apple-releases-ios-5-0-1-to-address-battery-life-issues/

download one of the direct links in this thread. you can go from iOS 4 to 5.0.1

Winner!!!