The wonderful world of failing downloads

I have been trying to download Americas Army 2.8.2 over the past week

Here are my two systems I have tried

Gateway from 5 years ago: 2.4ghz P4, 100Mbs LAN, 1.25gb Ram, 40gb free hdd

Dell from one or two years ago: 2.8ghz P4, 100Mbs LAN, 1.25gb ram, 160gb free HDD (Both XP and Linux)

Both have norton internet security (dell expires in 30 days) and are connected through a linksys WRT54GS router which I dont have acess to the control panel, through a comcast cable modem with 6-10mbit down

My attempts and downloading
Sites: AAOTracker, Offical Torrent, Filefront
Utilities: Firefox built in downloader, Down them all, Linux Firefox, Linux Wget command

The 2.8.2 file is almost 3 gb (like 2.9) and it always freezes up at 2.7gb so I decided that was a huge waste of time so now I am trying to do 2.7 in two parts with all the patches... all the patches worked just fine including the 900MB one

I didn't sucessfully download 2.7 on the dell yet or make an attempt but on the gateway the first time it freezed at 34% the second time at 7% done...

So my question is, is there anyway to fix this, is there a router setting that is capping downloads or possibly a BIOS or modem (comcast) setting that is screwing me over?

I really want to get this downloaded without having to get my friend to bring over his portable hdd for every release

try using a direct download site I used gamershell.com they usually have pretty good servers