Updating to iOS 8.1 and it sucked.. I had an error and the progress bar was stuck in the middle. I had to close and restart iTunes. The bright side is that it recognized the iphone right away and initialized the restore. Now my phone is factory lol
Sorry to hear that you had an issue downloading it. For me this update was one of the best and fastest ones I've had in a while. I have both my iPhone 6 and iPad Air done in less than 5 minutes. So far iOS 8.1 is working great.