macOS Mojave was released to the public on Monday. As I’m still suffering under terrible problems with macOS High Sierra Updates, I’ve decided to give my Mac a chance and to download Mojave.
I’ve started the download from the Mac App Store and the download speed was really slow. I’m using a 50MBit VDSL connection provided by the Deutsche Telekom. All other Downloads are fast and saturate the connection at about 5,5MB/s.
I purchased this copy from the Mac App store about 3 days ago and have been trying to download the installer. Well I have very slow internet (2-3 Mb/s down and I have gotten to about 2.25 gb of 4-something gb. And then there is a pop-up that says the download has failed. Well I go to try and download the installer today and this (the pic above. Mac App Store is the simplest way to find and download apps for your Mac. To download apps from the Mac App Store, you need a Mac with OS X 10.6.6 or later. Developer Tools. Jul 30, 2011 However, I noticed something: the Mac App Store was terribly slow, unusually unresponsive when compared to the same Mac App Store running on my 2008 MacBook Pro and 2009 iMac. I asked on Twitter, and lots of people seemed to share my frustrations with “beachballs”, slow loading times, and general bugginess of the program. Amazing Slow Downer is the ideal tool for any musician, transcriber or dancer wanting to improve their skills. Supports playback of streaming 'Apple Music' audio! Note: Some functions such as 'Pitch change' and 'Equalizer' are not available when playing 'Apple Music' songs. 'Apple Music' requires iOS 10.3.
The Download from the Mac App Store is terribly slow at around 200kB/s. After searching for problems with Deutsche Telekom and slow App Store speeds, I’ve stumbled over this page.
The solution to my slow download rates seem to be the used DNS server. Even if you use the DNS from Quad9 or the one from Google, you will have slow downloads.
Mac App Store Slow Download Pc
The recommended IPv4 DNS server are quite fast. I’ve setup a new Network Profile with these DNS server and I have now the full download speed again.
Mac App Store Update Hang
You can switch your network profile afterwards to your local DNS server.