Mountain lion too long download

Mountain Lion has been downloading on my computer for nearly 5 hours. Is this typical?

Yes that's right it's also took me five hours to download mountain lion
It's probably because the Apple servers are experimenting a lot of traffic at the moment.
Hope this helps
kris

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