Help! iPhone 4s in Recovery Mode after new IOS 7.1.1 update.

I went to update my iphone 4s earlier to IOS 7.1.1 and now it's in recovery mode. My issue with that is I keep trying to download the update on my computer so it can do the recovery and every time it gets to fully download (which bc I have a ****** internet company it takes hours to get there) I get an error message. IDK what else to do. Is there a way I can bypass the update and just run the recovery mode with the 7.1.0 update? I don't know what else to do. This is the first time I've had issues like this with this phone and I've had it over 3 years now.

Don't know if this will help but when I updated to 4.0.2 my phone gave me an error and bricked.
I made a new user on my computer, installed itunes and then was able to update my phone without it erroring. Once I had a working phone I went back to the old user and updated my phone with all of the information that was there before. I lost a few things but had a working phone.
Since then I have not had a problem with updating it in the old user. You might see if it will help with you all.
Message was edited by: Johnna Lynne

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