Now, HERE is something interesting:

I've been chatting with 3DArena who WAS having this slowness problem too for a few days. She said it cleared up after a couple of days and has been fine since.

BUT ... I told her that the 58 mb file I have been having trouble downloading was the first file of her Rionach character. So, she gave a link to the Rionach file in "the locker". Not sure what "the locker" is but I guess it is a more direct link to product or something like that.

And GUESS WHAT ... that same file that Firefox was telling me would take 3 minutes but wasn't moving and IE told me would take 5 minutes and was downloading at 150 KBS downloaded from the locker in 30 seconds!

So, she speculates that this is an indicator that the STORE here has a problem.

I believe she is correct.

IF there are any techs following this, please check this out.