Why is my MATLAB download taking much longer than expected?

I am in the process of downloading MATLAB and it says the download time is much longer than I would have expected. Why is this?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

Your download may be taking an unexpected amount of time due to the following reasons:

1. You may be experiencing slow internet speeds. You can attempt to connect to the internet with an ethernet cable instead of using a WiFi connection, restart your modem and router, or connect to a different network. 

2. If you are using anti-virus software this may also cause the download to take longer than expected. A common feature in anti-virus software is "live-scanning," which scans every file as it downloads. This can slow the download considerably. As a workaround you can temporarily disable this feature while downloading.

[christopher park]

I disabled my anti-virus software. It's already past 2 hours and suddenly, the download stopped at 24%. The internet connection is fine.