Upgarde to Lion with slow connection

Hi
I bought a mac book pro about 1.5 month ago
and I want to upgrade to Lion now
But I have a slow internet connection
Is there another way to upgrade?
and I saw some links that said macs early has been sold can upgrade to Lion free?
Is it true?

no I'm using 10.6.8
my basic problem is my slow internet connection
and I don't like to wait more
Is there another way to download it from another place and transfer data to my mac?(some friends from another cities can download it and post it's DVD to me)
another question i had is that for me that have bought my mac less than two months ago there is a free upgrade or is not?
thanks for all friends that helped and helping

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Yet another BtBroadband user with slow connection....

Hi all.
I've been having this problem for over a month now. Just before xmas our internet connection went down.
I phoned Bt, went through all the usual tests to be told there was nothing wrong with them and it was my equipment. Ok, no problem, I went out and bought a new router, got it home, plugged it in, still no internet.
Phoned Bt again, spoke to different person at callcenter, went through all the usual tests to be told that, yes, there was a problem with the line and to give it a few days for them to sort out. I gave it a few days and, amazing, the internet came back on. Problem was it was very slow. Ok, I thought, new modem, fixed connection, maybe I need to give it a few days to speed up. It's been a month now and it's gotten slower. So slow infact that when I ran the Bt Speedtester it said that my download speed was 59kps. This was the same speed I was getting back in '97 with my old dial-up modem (ah the memories...).
Anyway, called Bt again, explained all the above and was directed to thier online guide for improving the connection speeds, not very helpfull. Prior to the line problems in december, I was getting speeds up 21000kps. The line was rated for speeds between 4000-21000kps. My property is less than a 1km from the exchange, my router is connected to the main socket and I didn't have any problems prior to the line problems last year.
I have been searching through the previous posts on this forum and can see many other people with similar issues. One post stated that, because of thier line problems Bt had downgraded thier bandwith while the problem was dealt with, but had forgotten to increase it back to normal speed once it had been sorted.
This could be the issue with my connection and if any of the moderators are out there, could this be looked into, it would be deeply appreciated.
My Btspeedtester results and modem stats are as follows:
Download speedachieved during the test was - 59 Kbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speedsis 100-250 Kbps.
Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :286 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 888 Kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 135 Kbps
The throughput of Best Efforts (BE) classes achieved during the test is - 0.64:11.33:89.14 (SBE:NBEBE)
These figures represent the ratio while sententiously passing Sub BE, Normal BE and Priority BE marked traffic.
Upload speed achieved during the test was - 728 Kbps
Additional Information:
Upstream Rate IP profile on your line is - 888 Kbps
Router:
Type    Interleave Path
   Status    SHOWTIME
Downstream    Upstream
      Data rate(Kbps)
286Kb    888Kb
   Noise Margin
21    14
   Output power(dBm)
0    257
   Attenuation(dB)
21    7
I hope someone can help. Thanks in advance.

"If line instability is shown to stabilise normally the exchange equipment will remove the banding however on some occasions it does not release,and bt can release it manually but they like to see hub stats that show that during the line has been stable for a minimum of 5days but 10 is prefered" I'm not sure whose brainwashed you with this stuff, however. FaCT: BT retail complain to BTw about stuck banded profiles, and yes they can reset the INP, but if the line characteristics don't improve, it goes back to where it was. They also operate to strict protocol, and don't put lightweight preference on whether its seen a fixed rate at 5 days or 10. Truth is if the line is seeing high noise margin and not improving, it has a problem, and often can't be fixed, or take advantage of 21CN. Or sometimes it can be fixed, by the customer, if they choose to, or are capable of. It's not in BT's remit to fix home induced noise, but it is for the line, if its possible. They (BTw) can change any workiing parameter they see fit on DLM, but the main reason for it, is to run in AUTO. In other words, they don't do it for all and sundry, or at the drop of a hat, without good reason. Hence, they don't set "preference" for seeing stable connections. They tend to let the physics do its job.
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If you start a rental in the morning, and leave it downloading all day, will the Apple TV automatically use its 8GB of cache to store the file so that it will play continuously from start to finish, without needing to stream?

Reuben Feffer wrote:
With the new Apple TV, is it possible to rent Movies even if you have a really slow (e.g 0.5Mbps) internet connection?
If you start a rental in the morning, and leave it downloading all day, will the Apple TV automatically use its 8GB of cache to store the file so that it will play continuously from start to finish, without needing to stream?
Funnily enough I've not rented anything on it yet, but I firmly believe it will load the whole movie into the solid state buffer. If it did not do this people would be very frustrated if they decided to go back a couple of chapters after the phone rang for instance and they forgot to pause.
Until I try a rental I can't say for certain, but it would seem quite illogical (which is no guarantee) not to store the whole rental on the unit to allow for predownloading on slower connections but also for replay and chapter selection/skips/ff/rw purposes during the rental playback period.
The big unanswered question for me (maybe someone else has figured out by now) is how the 8GB of solid state memory is dished out and what purges existing content in the solid state memory.
For example - a single HD rental should fit in that 8GB, possibly two. However say the user has 2GB of photos streaming, do they have priority for memory usage ovr rentals or vice versa? The iPad has a 16GB limit for photos (or did in older OS), even on a 32GB/64GB machine, so maybe only 1-2MB is reserved for photo caching on ATV2, maybe the whole 8Gb is available, who knows?
Certainly local media from iTunes seems to cache to the unit, and quicker than ATV1, so the danger if the memory management is illogical is that any activity you do while caching an HD rental could potentially flush the cached rental in order to play the local media, but this would be daft and I hope they would reserve enough solid state memory for the rental and force the local media to cache in a smaller segment even if it meant repeatd cacheing to watch the whole thing (done transparently to the user).
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Downloading upgrade with slow connection

hello,
any tip to help me get my iPhone upgraded to 3.0?
my internet connexion is so slow (max rate 105 ko/s), i always get the download interrupted after 15 mn with the error 3259.
is there a way to make it last more than 15 minutes? what should i change in my connexion settings?
thank you.

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After DU loads select your newly installed hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
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2. http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ to install Flash for Mac
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use some kind of delta protocol. When only data is involved this should work. Of course when the layout of tables has been changed then it makes sense the tables has to be rebuild but not for data.
Maybe a solution could be to use check-sum checking and only update these records which are different and of course add the missing once.
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Countryside users let down again - slower connecti...

and ofcourse becuase we dont make enough money for them we will suffer with slow connections for ever more.
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my exchange is Burghill, in Herefordshire and the chances of us getting upgraded to infinity are slim to none at all.
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I get the following error when I load a movie with slow connection:
Cannot read property 'symbolData' of undefined
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Movie_edgeActions.js file is invoked with autonomous function as soon as it loads. Unfortunately, the Movie_edge.js file is usually much bigger than the edgeActions file (we're talking about dozens of kbs for the edge file compared to 3, maybe 5 kb for the edgeActions file). So on slow connection, the actions file is executed before the edge file is even loaded into the browser.
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Install Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion Using Internet Recovery
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Boot to the Internet Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND-OPTION- R keys until a globe appears on the screen. Wait patiently - 15-20 minutes - until the Recovery main menu appears.
Partition and Format the hard drive:
Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
After DU loads select your newly installed hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
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Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
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