How long take for upgrade to Lion

I'm trying to upgrade to Lion but not sure how long take the download complete?

Trooper, hi. I'm downloading Lion. When I clicked on "buy" or whatever it was in the App Store, an icon appeared in the Dock. Because it takes a while, unless you're very sharp-eyed, it's not obvious at first that there is a small progress bar at the bottom of the Dock icon. (It becomes more obvious later, when it starts to show some progress.) On my 2010 MBP on ADSL this is about 40% at a guess ... just looking at Console see if I can see a start time ... some App Store messages around 14:24, it's now 15:38, say 74 minutes to do 40% so at this rate will take 185 minutes to do it all, = 3 hours. Don'r know if that's just the download phase though. (Funny, I regularly download a 1.2 Gb file on an older machine, a 2.4 ghz Core 2 Duo iMac and ISTR it only takes 20 minutes or so.) Of course there is the Apple server load to consider maybe. I do not know if the progress bar relates to the total install or just the download phase.
HTH, Terry.

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