Sheridan Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 I've moved our ipad configuration to a mac so I can use the Apple Configurator (1.6) to setup devices; however on the first test ipad I cannot get IOS 8.0.2 to download - its just going sooooo slow! (22 hours remaining etc) We have a dedicated 100mbps link, and internet access is fine so is the apple configurator just bad at downloading updates?
tmoon-mint Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 You could potentially download the IPSW from elsewhere to see if there is a problem. Make sure you download the correct one for the devices you want to configure though.
Linfit Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 We configurator installed on a MacBook air and I had exactly the same issue last week - download eventually timed out after several hours. I ended up taking the MacBook home and doing it there - took a few minutes. We do have issues with App store and some updates on the Apple server failing sometimes and then at other times they work fine. I suspect we have issues with our web proxy/wifi config that messes up Apple kit phoning home sometimes - Apple stuff really does not like non-vanilla networks. (And by that I mean anything with a proper firewall, web proxy and filter, VLANS, etc etc
Sheridan Posted October 7, 2014 Author Posted October 7, 2014 I've also tried downloading the ipsw directly as well - after 2 hours its managed 209Mb!
Joanne Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 could it be that the filtering is blocking the apple servers?
Tesla Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 We've had a similar problem, but i have been doing it on my own ipad within school and it still takes an absolute age.
northeast_technician Posted October 8, 2014 Posted October 8, 2014 i have had same issue, spent a whole afternoon downloading ios 8.0.2 so i can send out new build to ipads, at end of the day when asked how far i got said i havent done any! didnt look good. out of interest are you all behind smoothwall?
northeast_technician Posted October 8, 2014 Posted October 8, 2014 was just wondering if there was a connection to poor performance if it was filtered in the same way
northeast_technician Posted October 8, 2014 Posted October 8, 2014 just thinking of possibilities, could it just be our lines rather than filtering?
Sheridan Posted October 8, 2014 Author Posted October 8, 2014 Well I finally got it work after multiple attempts over 24 hours. Problem is ios 8.0.2 doesn't work properly with Apple Configurator 1.6 - pushing out the config works generally but the wifi settings don't work anymore. Plugging the same 8.0.2 ipad into the old IPhone Configurator in Windows and it works fine. God I wish apple would keep up with their own updates!
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