16 minutes to DL, with a home DSL link, and that was very good of auran to suggest using Free Download Manager. all i had to do was drag the link from the email to my already open free-download manager and it took care of itself.
install was easy, and i'm up and running. i'm still checking things out, but it looks like the routes are working fine. working the app, now, getting the most from it, is simply that ongoing option of getting better hardware down the road. the app works good.