The patch took all of 10 mins to download for both computer in my house hold..

Which gave me a good 1h+ before the server was live.

Time to change your ISP, If that isn't an option, Well it's SE's issue.

They aren't going to update the patch server till they know they can go live with it. If something goes south they wouldn't want you to have to re download 2 gb of data back something in the package was corrupt.