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Anyone else experiencing this...workarounds?

From past experience it seems the  bandwidth is going to be under demand the first few days a release is out (guess there is only so much scope on the amazon servers), just wait say 3 days from release I suggest in future rather than jump into it. I tend to wait a couple of weeks myself, reading the forums for comments on whether it's a good or bad release and attempt to the access the stability from the feedback we have here.

I had no probs pulling it and tons of large content related to Rapture and stuff down. Seemed to come down within 1/2 hour for me. I copied it from the PC to the laptop thought for the subsequent installs to cut the install time.

OK...this is strange.  Suddenly the downloads took off at speeds I would expect.  Somehow the log jam got busted.

Yay!  Finally got EVERYTHING!

Good to hear that it wasn't just me and my machine. 

Ugh - Slow here as well.  Kingston took about 2 hours to download (normally less than 2 min for something like that).  Rapture Session failed once and is barely moving now.  Come on... a little capacity please.