Lion internet recovery is taking too long to download

Alright, I'm trying to install Windows 7 with Boot Camp (I'm new to Mac, but I can pick it up fast)
Now, it said I had to repair the disk, I downloaded the repair disk, booted up from USB, and it couldn't repair, it said it had to format.
Now it formatted, and it's downloading it (Lion OS X) again as I didn't go into the recovery HD
Now, my problem is that it's taking quite a long time to install it. My guess is that it's trying to verify everything as well as download the OS and it's not really updating the "time remaining". It's slowly going down, but is there anything else that I need to know? Because once this has done, I will be going back to step one with Boot Camp to install Windows 7.

Any tips?
Next month Lion will be available on a USB drive (with a FULL installer).  I would wait for that, or perhaps a DVD coming out later.

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