Taking 12-20 hours to download?!!?!

[Stoutman11]

I have a fast broadband (time warner road runner) connection and when i check my download it is estimating on avg 18 hours to Download?? WTH?? WHat is wrong and how can this be? by this rate i will have it tomorrow after work.

Any help? Thanks

oh and btw i have a late 2007 macbook. 2.0ghz processor 250hd and 4 gb of ram with nothing else running besides safari

 

[Elven]

Servers could be under massive load as people are in "must have" mode

 

[Mitchelino]

Welcome to my world. This is how my downloads are 24/7 I'm just glad it'll be done by tomorrow. Some downloads take me multiple days!

But as Elven said, it's likely due to the demand.

 

[Stoutman11]

well 4 hours later i am back from tennis and dinner and its on 12 hours! no way 3-4gb file should take this long!

 

[elvineet]

Same story here. Looking at anywhere from 6 hrs to 19 hrs estimated time. That's after completing 1.36GB

 

[paid4c4]

I don't feel so bad about 5.5 hours today for a download time.
Bill

 

[DirtySocks85]

All I know is that it took me less than 8 hours. I started it when I went to work this morning and it was ready to install when I came home.

 

[TheGdog]

WOW! I managed to download it in 1 hour & 30 minutes on my 1Megabyte connection. Not sure how that happened.

 

[65535]

Should I feel bad mine only took 20 minutes?

 

[DJRiful]

I managed to download it for 2.5 hours via my iPhone 4 tethering 6GB Data plan lol!

 

[SundayDuffer]

27 mins via Comcast.

 

[480951]

I have a 2 MBps connection and somehow it downloaded in 26 minutes on both the iMac and MBP. 18 hours seems like a ridiculously long time.

 

[wywern209]

i had mine download in like 1hr 30-45 mins . i have a near 1 MBPS connection.

EDIT: OP i would post your actual connection speed by going to speedtest.net and doing a speed test. if it isn't up to par for the speed you're paying for, then i would give TWC a call to see what is up. if it is up to par with your advertised speed, then i guess your speed isn't as fast as you though.
EDIT2: op, i did some calculations, even conservative estimates state that i was pulling down at least .6MB/second. for it to take 20 hrs for you would indicate that your speed is about .4mb/s. not .4MB/s but .4mbps which is only about 10x faster than dial up which isn't saying much when downloading like 3.8GB.

 

[njvan]

My download only took 45 minutes. 12-20 hours sounds way off.