Can't Download iOS 8

Every time I try to download iOS on iTunes, the time keeps going up by 100s of hours at a time,  what is going on?

I'm having this issue too. I must have attempted 50 times since I first tried on Thursday.
When I try to go through iTunes, it just says "Contacting the iPhone software update server..." for HOURS and never actually does anything. It failed once, telling me my "network connection timed out" or whatever, but the other 9 times or so, I finally end up giving up and stopping it.
Dozens of my friends have done it via wifi with no problems, so I've tried that at least 40 times, and it bounces around between 11 and 52 hours, but the status bar never makes it more than a millimeter across before telling me (1 to 14 hours later) that the download failed.
I've tried rebooting my phone and my computer; I've tried plugged in and on battery; I've tried during the morning, mid-day, and late at night... No matter what I do, I just can't get it. Pretty much everyone else I know got it on the 1st try with no issues whatsoever.
(I have a 16 GB iPhone 5C with 5.5 GB of free space, and it only called for 4.7 GB of necessary space).

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