How long did it take to download for you on the Macbook pro?  Mine's only at 1.38 GB and been going for 3 hours.

On a very slow wifi connection at my University, but I'm just wondering for a rough estimate.

what is your advertised download rate from your ISP?
when it completes downloading, Do not install right away!
before you install, make sure you have a time machine copy of your Lion setup saved to an external source. This will be useful.
then you should go the Disk Utility and select the Disk Drive that has Lion on it, Verify and Repair your disk and permissions and then go to applications folder and right click the installer app for ml.
Find a file called InstallESD.dmg and save a copy of it to your computer. This will save you the trouble of having to install it from mas again, should you have to reinstall Mountain Lion or install it on another computer.

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