Updating to iOS5.......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[JWSandi]

Going on 4 hours to download iOS5 for my 3GS.....

Progress bar in iTunes says its about 25% complete....

 

[DroidRules]

Ok, thanks.

 

[Tito Georgie]

Ohhhhhhhh

 

[iTouchIt]

Hehe...8 hours left for me. Gonna be a looooooong night!

 

[jca24]

started at 63 min, at 39 now

 

[mizelly41]

Why is it taking so long? Mine has 6 hours remaining... Unacceptable.

 

[richpjr]

With everyone updating their iPhones, Touches, iPads, updated IOS apps, Apple TVs, Macs and Mac Apps, and launching iCloud it's not surprising. Now sure how wise it was to release everything all at once, but I guess they are too interdependent.

 

[jca24]

at 18 min now

 

[34design]

Why is it taking so long? Mine has 6 hours remaining... Unacceptable.

tip!

mine started at 4 hours , cancel and restart whenever the connection slows down it picks up where it left off got mine in 39 minutes , think I cancelled and restarted 4 times .

 

[jca24]

6 min now

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done, now backing up phone

 

[JWSandi]

With 30% of the global cellphone market... I'm sure its slow because half of them are trying to update their phones...

 

[jca24]

now the phone is doing its thing, i'm gonna go eat dinner

 

[Codepiink]

I restarted my router and it went significantly faster. it initially said 70 minutes, then went down to 15 minutes after I did that. Maybe you guys should try that.

 

[forza69]

Wow I'm surprised at the times you guys are reporting. Mine said 2 hours, and 2 hours was all it took. Enjoying iOS 5 on my 3GS. Can't wait for my 4S to arrive on Friday!

 

[Vudoo]

Mine took 8 mins.

 

[jca24]

done

 

[srazz]

What pisses me off is when Apple has a server error and it wants you to try again later. Ok, then don't go thru that damm backup process... just start where you left off.

Going on 6 hours trying to update an iPad...

 

[ann713]

Took me about 20 minutes.

 

[Dairyman]

i was 95% complete it timed out now it says 19hrs

my phone is currently bricked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[walterwhite]

running for an hour... now down to 13 hours remaining to download...

 

[Dairyman]

i just found if it is d/ling really slow cancelling and restarting your computer helps drastically

went from 19hrs down to 16minutes....

 

[nateo200]

ZOMG ITS LIKE BETTER THAN SLICED BREAD AND SEX COMBINED. No really just wait..its a pain in the ass but when like 6 trillion people all want the same thing its not easy...

 

[JWSandi]

77 minutes to go for me... started at 1PM CST...

 

[bowlerman625]

at this rate, with

2 iphones
2 ipads
1 ipod touch
1 mac
1 apple tv

I should just call in sick for the rest of the week to get this all done.

And ive got very fast cable internet. Not acceptable Apple

 

[F123D]

How are some of these download times even possible? I had to download twice 2 hours after it was released and each time took 12 minutes.