I am currently in Jakarta Indonesia, and the Expo “create new project” tool is giving up too easily. Right from the start it’s asking me to restart the download - and after 10%-14% is complete, it goes back to the start and complains that the download had failed.
The thing is - it was downloading everything - it was just doing it extremely slowly ! the internet connection here is not so fast, and we are a long way from the US, but it works fine. Just gotta be patient that’s all. I reckon in an hour or two it would be done.
I will try downloading the files manually, but that’s not really the point. I see this as a bug. If the app is seeing data coming in, it should not give up prematurely on the download. Not everyone is sitting close to an Amazon region or a CDN endpoint. Just gotta be patient…