Hi Wendy,

Yes, leave it for awhile, the servers have become overloaded in the past few 
minutes I’ve noticed.
I was almost through downloading when it slowed to an absolute crawl.

I would suggest people try later or even tomorrow perhaps ;-)

Cheers,
Ronni

On 08/03/2012, at 9:21 AM, Wendy S Austin wrote:

> Thanks for this Peter however when I try it this way I receive an error 
> message 'Unable to check for update.   An error occurred while checking for a 
> software update'.     
> 
> I have just downloaded the latest iTunes and when I try to upgrade the iPad 
> through there on the iMac, it spends ages trying to contact to the update 
> server and never connects.   I am guessing the servers are over loaded and 
> should try later.   Yes?
> 
> Wendy
> On 08/03/2012, at 11:48 , Peter Hinchliffe wrote:
> 
>> I just upgraded my iPad through the Settings > Software Update command. The 
>> whole thing went extremely smoothly, and as promised, there was no need at 
>> all to connect physically to my computer, or to get iTunes involved in any 
>> way.
>> 
>> Very impressive...
> 
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