Another Lion is downloading slow thread

I searched the interwebs and failed to find any solution.  I'm trying to download Lion and it is trickling at a snail pace (3kb max).  We have a 50/15 pipe here at work and everything else just works awesome.  I have read many "the servers are just busy" messages but that was months ago.   I checked our firewall .. opened it up and I'm just stumped why it is so slow.  My downloader says it will be done in 34days. 
Seriously?  Why offer something as download only and then make people download it for over a month.  Cupertino is not even that far away. 
I have tried to pause and restart the downloader to try for a better spot but it fails to change anything.
I know one solution is "go to the store and buy a usb stick version" well I already bought the download version assuming everything would work. (It just works!)
Anyone run into this problem as of late?
Anyone know of any tricks to make this App store work as intended?
Thanks,
Todd

Is a Western Digital Studio Edition II 2T (in RAID 1 mirror). The HD has 2 drives 1T each an put one mirroring the second one.
HD is connected to Mac through Firewire 800.

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