Windows 10 Build 9860 Now Available

BunnyJ said:

Chuck38 said:

And here I thought mine was slow!

From what I've heard 2 hrs is about the average download time.

2 Hours!! WOW.. mine took about 10 minutes to download and a total of about 30-40 minutes to perform the entire process.

Jeff

On three computers

paulsalter said:

Started it about 3pm yesterday afternoon (pc did go into sleep mode last night while downloading so that didn't help

continued the download at 11am this morning, just got up and running now 2:15pm

While everyone else is lapping it up on their great internet speed, they've seemed to have over looked your issue.

Anyway can you give us an idea what your internet speed is? Is this cable, DSL, or Dial-Up?

I'm thinking 12 hours is an awfully long time for say 4gig on all but dial-up? And I'm not even sure dial-up should take that long, but...

And unless it's dial-up I'm thinking you may have to restart the download process again. You may have gotten stuck somewhere.

Let us know.

Paul - that's terrible!

I'm not sure there was much you could do though. When I first tried to get the Preview Rls, I gave up because it was too slow. Then John posted an alternative download.

Unfortunately, the 9860 update was through the Preview pgm and there wasn't an option to use another server/download location.

Maybe feedback is required! My experience with 9860 was similar ... I started it - couldn't tell if it was trying to connect or if it was actually downloading, so I stopped it after about 1/2 and hour. I thought I read that it could be restarted, but I'm not certain. I tried again and killed it after about 10 minutes. Third time is the charm - I just let it do what it wanted and 2 hours later, I got the Install button. That took about an hour, but I knew it was going to take a while - someone (bunnyj?) mentioned 20 minutes for the install (I'm really jealous!).

Speed tests can be misleading ... the server you test against and the server you actually connect to are probably different.

For comparison:

OOKLA Speed Test: Baltimore MD	Comcast Speed Test: New Castle DE	Comcast Speed Test: Washington DC

And man ... look how far away those Comcast Servers are

Bill
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paulsalter said:

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continued the download at 11am this morning, just got up and running now 2:15pm

sygnus21 said:

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And unless it's dial-up I'm thinking you may have to restart the download process again. You may have gotten stuck somewhere.

I think Paul finaly got it downloaded.

paulsalter said:

Normal downloading I can usually get 1GB in about an hour (using Win 8), just done a test in Win 8 and I downloaded 200 MB in 10 mins, so I know my connection is no worse than usual

Yeah, that file should have downloaded a lot quicker than 12 hours. Check the file and make sure it's complete and intact.

paulsalter said:

Could the VM cause this if I have something wrong, although in general in works as well as 8 internet speed

Wait... you downloaded it through a VM? I'm not expert in VM, but that may have been part of the issue.

Anyway being that it took so long check that the file is complete and intact.

BTW where did you download the file from? - Could be a factor.