All this high speed hype, most users are on modems and thus you will get 33K bps max from them which is about 2K Bytes/s most of the time. Yes it sucks so go get as much as you can from static web sites, news servers and ftp.
I sell a CD for $5 post paid from files I filled it up with from Gnutella. It costs me 29 cents plus the time to burn it. I want to be just like bill gates within 2 years. Want one?