Hi Bighorn,
it wasn't my download speed, the new version downloaded very quickly (I have a 25Mbs connection), the slow part was the laptop I was installing it on, it has an I3 CPU and 4GB RAM which is fast enough for writing letters and browsing the web but not for high speed system activity.
I have seen a nice MoBo bundle on eBay for under €170 which I might buy for my aging HP Compaq Presario which has an AMD Athlon 3 core CPU and 4GB RAM, I put a 1GB Nvidia PCI Express GPU on it but it still lackas that certain something.