Why is the OS X Yosemite download taking so long?

I own a late 2013 MacBook Pro, and I'm installing OS X Yosemite right now. But the App Store is telling me that it'll take 8-12 hours. Will it really take 8-12 hours, or is this just a miscalculation (i.e. download speeds up at a certain point)?

I have been downloading for 3 days and it's still not done!  Every other download is fast, but for me on the west coast of Canada, the server hosting the Yosemite file seems to be painfully slow. 
Edit: After 3 days I finally figured that I need to try to speed it up somehow... so I connected to my VPN service in San Jose, CA and guess what, my download time went from over 24 hours remaining to 24 minutes remaining.  My speediest.net result when connected to my VPN is 105Mbps when pinging off a server in San Francisco.  Much faster than my local speed test in Vancouver, Canada.  Maybe Telus is throttling my download locally, thoughts?

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