Cannot download Mountain Lion upgrade

I have a Late 2009 MacBook running 10.7.5 OS, using 4Mbps wifi. Went to apple.com > Mountain Lion > upgrade, which took me to App store. I clicked on the download button, clicked Buy, signed into my Apple account, clicked on Download,, and ... nothing. Tried again. Nothing. Waited. Waited, etc. Emptied cache. Tried again. Emptied cache, disabled cache, closed out all windows, shut down computer. Restarted. Went right to apple.com and app store. Same results. Click Download button...nothing.
Went to Finder > went to "~/Library/Caches/ ",  closed out of everything, shut down, had coffee, turned back on, same as before - straight to app store with no ability to download.
Now what?

I found a similar problem listed after iI posted this which suggested that I go to the App sotre to check the status of my purchases - I find the Mountain Lion purchase, it says "paused" so I click "resume", waited a minute or two and it began downloading.

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