Ryse and MCC are the only games that took annoyingly long to install for me. Other installs, digital downloads and updates have been quick. Are you installing many games at the same time? Also I've read on Fifa forums there's been problems with online matchmaking in many games tonight so maybe it has something to do with Xbox live?

Well I hope you get to play soon. Those install/update times aren't normal tho.

If you want fast installs, you should get the PS4. There was a high trending tweets in Sept-Feb about faulty hard drives in the Xbox One. Is anything failing? I don't think it was widespread only trended sporatically. If you do find it erroring out, just take it in for a replacement.

I'm saying the app (not the Drive itself, the app) is outdated. Controller and app updates usually take seconds with a decent connection, so normally that shouldn't be something to worry about. Same goes with syncing. Again, if it isn't an internet problem then something is wrong with the Xbox.

An hour for the controller update is just hyperbole. Or maybe ignorance. He didnt know you can start Xbone games and play while installing.

Go wired.
But yeah I've had some abnormally slow updates on Xbox at times. Server load might have some affect

It takes awhile for mine to install games and updates. More than once I've had to install discs offline then sign in to update. They also won't update without the disc in which is annoying.

That sounds like you have a terrible internet connection or a broken device. If that were standard, it would be pretty big news.

>> so far it has taken nearly 18 hours to download witcher 3 to 76%. Forza horizon 2 took nearly 23 hours to get to 68%. then it told me i had to update my controllers. 

This type of problem/issue is not just limited to the XB1 it is across all consoles and PC's.

Basically it appears your network connection from your XB1 to the servers is slow although how slow is slow is annother issue. From what I can gather The Witcher 3 download is anything from 35GB plus. So assuming that size to download is actually 35GB then if you only got 76% after 18 hours your network download speed is approximately 2.4 MB/s.

Looking at your Forza download which would normally be 39.23GB, so 23 hours to get 68% would work out that your network download is applroximately 3.1 MB/s which is not that far off your download speed for The Whicher 3.

Depending on your network and your Service Provider these download speeds may or may not be what you expected. Where I live which is Sydney Australia I do get similar download speeds although on occasion I have seen 10 MB/s bursts.

Personally I am not into digital downloads unless the files are relatively small mainly due to the limitation on network speed where I live. This would be the case for the majority of internet users although I won't deny that there are some who can get incredible download speeds. I am well aware that some will say that you only need to do this once however you really should consider the possibilty that that if you really need to reinstall then you are back to a long wait. Still this a topic that has been done to death. 

I don't have an XB1 or PS4 for that matter yet.

Digital downloads are fully dependent on the network performance between your machine be it PC or console to the site where you are getting the files from. 

Installing via media is normally faster than installing via download although not as convient. As for cost well that depends as well.

Most games when installed via media (ie. Bluray) on the PS4 are normally ready to play within a few miniutes compared to the media (ie. Blueray) install on the XB1. To fully install a game whether for the PS4 or the XB1 (assuming the same game) takes approximately the same ammount of time.

I dunno what to tell you. Maybe it's a bad ethernet port, maybe it's a bad HDD. Could be a slow connection (and you need to port forward). It could be a number of things, up to and including the possibility that you're spoiled by PC and PS4 speeds.