Reinstalling OSX Mountain Lion, and it says 500  hours to dowload?!?  hellp

I have a MacBook Air and was suggested to delete everything on my HD before potentiallly selling my MacBook. So I followed all the instructions, disk utility, erase hard drive, go back and reinstall Mountain Lion. Anyways everything is going smoothly, but my installation time says up to 500 hours for it yo download !!! Is that crazy? Some malfunction? Or just my internet connection???
Please help

It could be a server-side slowdown of sorts, but likely is because of your connection. Are you in a relatively remote area? Most broadband connections should take a few hours or less to download the installers, which are around 4GB in size.

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