The app is NetUse Traffic Monitor. Please see my post #58 in this thread for more details.
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MacOS Sierra slow download
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Just got off the phone with Apple Support. The temporary work-around for those still having the issue is to create a new admin account on your mac, download, save and install Sierra... then you can delete the extra admin account.
The engineer I was working with said this is the first time they've left the previous version of OS X / macOS on the App Store when a new version is released, and they are looking into possible issues with App Store permissions. He also said that they are looking at the slow downloads AND the failure to appear on the Purchases tab as related and/or the same root cause.
I created a new account on my mac and the download is almost 50% in less than 15 minutes - almost like the "good old days".
The engineer I was working with said this is the first time they've left the previous version of OS X / macOS on the App Store when a new version is released, and they are looking into possible issues with App Store permissions. He also said that they are looking at the slow downloads AND the failure to appear on the Purchases tab as related and/or the same root cause.
I created a new account on my mac and the download is almost 50% in less than 15 minutes - almost like the "good old days".
I have from Mountain Lion to El Capitan showing up in my purchased section and can download any of them. El Capitan is like the rest now. It shows up in the purchased section but not in the store.
The problem with Sierra is that even after installing it to three machines it is not showing up in my purchased section. This means when it is removed from the store it will be unavailable unless you have archived a copy on you machine.
you guys are awesome! it worked for me in 17 minutes. I'm just a consumer so very ignorant about these things, should I turn the DNS back to the original setting or should I be okay keeping with the 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 with regular use? Thanks for all your help.
I tried yesterday. Got 150 MB in an hour. Gave up. Will continue with El Capitan for a while. Comcast. medium speed internet.
The app is NetUse Traffic Monitor. Please see my post #58 in this thread for more details. Note:it only works with routers that support SNMP -- which means it does not work with the current crop of AirPort routers.
---GetRealBro
I'm living im brasil, using a vivo fiber optic. I tray many time to update my computer but always the progress bar take 15hs to complete.
Now using this DNS take 20min to complete.
Thank you very much,
[doublepost=1490995982][/doublepost]Changing DNS to 8888 and 8844 finally worked! I've been trying to download for weeks and this finally took my download times from 6+ hours to 25min @ 300MPS. Thx all
Hi. I think you can change your DNS or using a Free VPN (Virtual Private Network)
This tutorial will help you: https://techsviewer.com/best-free-vpn-macos-sierra/
This tutorial will help you: https://techsviewer.com/best-free-vpn-macos-sierra/
That has been mentioned many times in this thread already, I was the one to suggest it a while back.
Hey guys just thought I let you know
Doing clean install and having same stupid problem and get the download failure message after hours of dl time
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But if I just restarted iMac after failure message the installation continued automatically....
Dunno why but it worked for me...
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Doing clean install and having same stupid problem and get the download failure message after hours of dl time
See photo
But if I just restarted iMac after failure message the installation continued automatically....
Dunno why but it worked for me...
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I downloaded High Sierra on my MBA in less than 10 minutes... didn't actually time it, but it was quite fast.
I was having issues as well. I'm currently configured for IPv6 and have been using the recommended DNS servers 2001:4860:4860::8888/8844 and usually get every bit and more of my 350 Mbps connection but when I tried requesting High Sierra this evening it was absolutely crawling. I deleted it and tried again and got the same result. Ultimately got about 1.78 GB in about an hour so I've given up for the day.
