Should TeXLive installation take 17+ hours? (Windows)

I figured out my problem. A "reasonably close" CTAN mirror is supposed to be selected but somehow the installer was downloading from University of Kansas (I'm near Seattle, WA and UW would have been a much better choice).

I had to forcibly close the installer and invoke it from the command line with the -repository option and just specified UW as the URL. I'm looking at an 11 minute install time now.

Sometimes my students have problems installing MiKTeX or TeX Live with the same effect you had with TeX Live: the installing would take too much time (usual solution: change the mirror to download).

The time it needs to install depends on three things:

1. How many downloads has the choosen mirror to do (that could mean, that you see a very slow server serving you)
2. Your internet connection is slow (that could be because your provider is slow or one of the several servers on the route is slow)
3. your computer is slow and has problems to handle the incomming datas from the internet

For point 1. and 2. check the quality of your internet connection. use the system panal to view how many packets are send and arrives on your computer. If the mirror is slow, change the mirror to download from.

To point 3.: Your computer is new and fast enouph to handle the download, even with activated antivirus software. But you wrote: "I have my antimalware / antivirus software disabled" Please: Never disable the antivirus software when you are connected to the internet! Just do the following:

1. Download all needed files to your computer with---of course---activated antivirus software!
2. Close internet connection, check the downloaded files with the antivirus software.
3. No virus? Ok. Deactivate antivirus software and install LaTeX
4. Activate Antivirus software and check the installed files for viruses (sure is sure).

But with a modern computer there should be no reason to deactivate antivirus software. If the computer is very slow I would check the memory and the hard disk drive. With a new computer the chanche is there that memory or hard disk drive are faulty ...

After so many, many years still tex on Mac or windows are a nightmare. Still people have to search, "How to install tex on .... ", and after 17+ hours of installing time (yes, same happened to me) you still may end up "Log file not found" (which has nothing to do with log file), this cannot be executed, or that. Frustrating for many people. Sorry, I didn't provide the answer, yes it takes so much time.

Yes, after 20 hours, it said failed! What a waste of time!