Komp,
Now that you are in the land of "wooooooshhhh" you can check your speeds at
www.mirrorservice.org
Have a look at this link
UK Mirror Service: sites/releases.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/6.06
Try one of the Linux iso's which are about 600MB+.
Also worth getting a download manager for stuff like this, I use Flashget. Defo worth having as it makes about 5 connections to the file and downloads them all at the same time.
Its got a free and premium one but the premium one is usually all over the torrents.
Also worth getting the Opera Flashget plug in if your still using Firefox. Then when you click a link to download Flashget kicks in and downloads it via teh download manager.
Try one of the big files without a download manager and with one, you will be much faster with one though.