Recently was trying to download an update to an iPad app from Apple’s servers, a patch to or new version of the Numbers spreadsheet. The patch was said to be 26 MB long. That should take me about 30s on my slow network connection, but 5 mins gone and it’s still going, crawling along. It’s so slow that I did a speed test with the Ookla speed tester while the download was still running, which should of course cause the test results to be lower than they should be, but I got a tester download speed of over 9 Mbps. That is pretty good these days, with a current poor speed from line #4 downstream (420 kbps below what it should be just now), and that decent figure suggests that the download is so slow that it isn’t even reducing the speed tester results down much.
I’ve written this post and the download is still going, about 70% complete now. It must be ten minutes nearly. A very rough guess is that it’s ~20 times slower than normal, maybe more.
