Thank you for that LH2! Yes, I am using Windows - XP SP3.
I have visited the principal download site several times. The first time it siad that the download would take three hours so I left it to get on with it. When I came back I had that message about t all having taken too long and so had been chopped. On each subsequent visit, as soon as I was told that the download would be equally slow, I chopped it first! I have come through other links to that same page but with the same result each time, too slow.
I have come through mirror sites but don't understand the options presented to me, nor in the cases of P2P which I have seen. It seems such a palaver - after all it's not really that big a download. It's just that it's such a slow one.
2009 doesn't seem THAT long ago!