Iphone crash downloading iOS 6 and unable to restore using iTunes due to error 3253

I'm from New Zealand and woke up this morning to find the iOS 6 was available. So after an hour of downloading onto my iPhone 3GS, it wiped my phone, sent it into restore mode. I connected to iTunes - have been trying for almost 8 hours!!!!!!!! and it is unable to download iOS6 due to error 3252, connection resetting and error 23.
have done everything, all firewalls and anti-virus are switched off, upgraded to latest version of iTunes, turned off computer, re set the internet a million times. Won't downald on anyone eses computer in this house, and friends using other internet have the same problem.
My iPhone is now off and will not turn on! What the **** is going on Apple??? I spend a fortune on these products and these latest updates ahve been nothing but trouble!
Please can anyone help, im getting really p@#$@d off!!!!!!!

I had this problem at first initially, and tried it 4 or 5 times. Once I made sure that no other unnecessary software was running, the restore worked successfully. However, it sounds like you've probably tried that. Good Luck.

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