Thanks for the info, Khalus. Very nice.

Here's just a small sampling of the threads complaining about the downloader. This is certainly not a complete list. Just the results of a quick search for the word "download":

Slow download, am I the only one?

Does the patcher suck for you all too or is it just me.

Updater still terrible.

SE sort out your updater.

Issues when downloading patches.

Downloading update patches -- Extremely bad.

Patcher -- A few things for SE to consider.

Exceptionally long update times.

Why is the patch update system still broken? (includes dev comment)