MacOS – My downloads hang across the OS

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I am using MacOs Sierra and downloads across the operating system hang after a few seconds. To successfully download a file, I have to pause and resume the download over and over until it completes. Here's what I have tried:

  1. Changing browsers. Didn't help
  2. Download accelerators. Didn't help
  3. Switching from wifi to wired internet Didn't help
  4. Switching to windows on the same computer Worked

Is there anything else that I should look into?

Best Answer

The next thing is to determine if all network downloads are broken on your Mac or just Apple downloads.

It's possible you have a bad external network route or the networking settings on the Mac are substantially different than the PC. It could also be as simple as the date / time are wrong on the Mac or some other thing that is breaking SSL/HTTPS/TLS or whatever secure connection the Mac is negotiating with the download server.

Is there a reason you aren't using the App Store to do the download? Perhaps bad speeds or remote / heavily filtered internet in your country?

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