Why won't this thing ever restore?

[energiesource]

Everytime I go to upgrade my iPhone I swear its a 2 day process. Between me trying itunes, installing and uninstalling 10 times, the restore bar just freezes and doesnt move at 60%. I tried a pwnagetool custom ipsw and it froze at 98%. Everytime I go to update I have to go to a friends house, use a totally different computer and even then it only works once in a while. Like what the **** apple. I don't even have a jailbroken iphone and its impossible to upgrade. Why??
I searched for these topics and all everyone says is 'it needs to be in DFU mode' well i put it in DFU mode and it still does it. So any advice?

[pratt1503]

have you tried downloading the firmware you want. from here and putting that on the desk top and doing a shift+restore and pointing to the one you have downloaded ?

[energiesource]

I've downloaded a few from iclarified and tried those but they turned up failing as well. I'll try again though from here.
Thanks.

[bondkt]

tell us how it goes, curious.

[energiesource]

I tried using my friends computer and it restored fine. same with my apple tv. I don't get why it doesnt work on my computer. I just did a complete reinstall of osx and it still does this.

[i.Annie]

Did you ever edit your host file.

[bondkt]

yeah..use Tinyumbrella to edit your host file ?=0

Did you ever edit your host file.

[i.Annie]

No I mean through the computer. It needs to be set back right to restore normally

[energiesource]

I did on my previous OS, if youre talking about putting a # in front of the apple ip thats what i did, but that was on my old operating system, i didnt touch the host file on this one

[i.Annie]

Make sure in TinyUmbrella then that it isn't set to point at Saurik's server

[iYeow]

uninstall wifi sync on your computer and try again