Why can't I download large files on Windows 7 in Bootcamp?

I am running Bootcamp on a New iMac running Lion. Everything on the Apple side of my partition works brilliantly. I need Windows to run some old programs which are not available to Mac.
I successfully loaded Windows 7 on Bootcamp after many attempts at downloading the Windows Support files. But now everything works fine until I try to download a file of more than about 2mb. I tried downloading HP printer drivers and Chrome and Firefox, without success. Thinking it must be IE8, I downloaded Firefox onto a Flash drive and installed. The problem still persists in Firefox. I have tried installing a new version of raspppoe.sys as suggested by one internet resource, but to no avail.
When attempting to download in Firefox, one has the useful option of being able to pause and resume a download- so I have successfully downloaded Adobe Reader X (50.2 Mb) but had to pause and resume the download about 200 times. It downloads between 0 and 1.5Mb on each resume session and took over an hour in total. Can anyone help, I’m going nearly mad (my Mrs thinks I have already)
The only conflict I can see is that my isp router settings are for pppoa whereas Windows 7 does not seem to support this protocol, using pppoe instead.

Windows needs about 50GB of room, plus some breathing space.

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