Mavericks download fails -Repeatedly

Hi,
I have been trying to downloadload OS X Mavericks for about a week.  Every attempt goes smoothly at about 1MB/sec until between 1GB and 3GB into the download it hangs. I have tried pausing and restarting the download as well as deleting it in Launchpad and starting over.
I am using Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63b)
Is it available in more managable pieces?
What should I do?  I really want to play with Mavericks!!

Hi all. I may have been a little hasty with my question. The download finally finished.
The ONLY thing I did different was let it use WiFi instead of the Lan connection.
Not sure why that would have anything to do with it...but it worked.
Any way......food for thought....let WiFi handle it.
Howard

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