App Store download progress goes up & down... really!

Hi All
I thought I would try the Support Communities before calling Apple on this issue.
I am trying to download a copy of Pages I purchased for a client and the amount of data reported in the progress bar is fluctuating. All was fine until about 90MB then it won't seem to go past 105MB.
A brief summery of progress:
8:11am at 100MB
8:12am at 99.9MB
8:35am at 103MB
8:42am at 95MB
I suspect the problem I have is my internet connection... I live in the Solomon Islands and the only choice we have is an entirely satellite based system which is not only one of the most expensive in the world but also reliability can be an issue with disconnections/timeouts etc. Having said that, our ISP does their best to keep the show on the road. I would persevere with the download but having to pay US$400 month for 20GB of data for a 256kb pipe strongly dictates budgeting ones use.
Have anyone seen this "phenomenon". Any pointers on how to get around the problem?
At 11am (after a break in doing the download) the data went as high as 105MB but is back down to 94.7MB, very frustrating!
Thanks in advance.
Cheers, Paul

There may be no apparent "progress bar" in the App Store. It may be a bug associated with this particular download. Unfortunately I am not in a position to determine if this is related to you being overseas or not.
To determine if it is actually downloading use Launchpad. You should see a fairly obvious new icon with an associated progress bar. Make sure you check every Launchpad page by swiping left / right.
The downloaded file will also be in your Applications folder. When it finishes, it looks like this (Mavericks icons are shown; Mountain Lion is similar):
Check your Downloads folder. Before it finishes downloading, it will have a "progress bar" at the bottom. While it is downloading it looks like this:
If it's paused, click the icon to restart it.
Once it completes the icon will appear in Applications and Launchpad, it's just easier to find in Launchpad.
Launchpad equivalents:
When it's finished it looks like this:
If it really is not downloading read Mac App Store: How to resume interrupted downloads
Open the Mac App Store.
From the Store menu, choose Sign In.
Enter your Apple ID and password.
Click Purchases to get to your Purchases Page.
Click the Resume button next to the app name.
If that doesn't work, "sign out" of the App Store, and sign back in again.
If that doesn't work, try restarting your Mac.
If that doesn't work, write back.

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I've been searching for as precise a description of my issue as I could find, but haven't found it. So, I'm putting it here for commiseration and, mostly, help.
Brand new iMac, running Mavericks. In the App Store, clicked "Purchases." Started to download (via Wifi) what's needed. One or two of the smaller apps downloaded fine, but the larger ones (e.g. GarageBand, Keynote, and Final Cut Pro) kept "recyling," by which I mean, they would get a quarter or a third of the way done, then go right back to zero. AppleCare seemed to help by saying "It's really just downloading the larger applications in packets, so it's probably just going back to get the next packet and, when it does, it goes back to zero."). After doing a few things they suggested, it seemed to work a bit better, but that was not, in fact, the case.
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