I downloaded it on the 16th whit the wow downloader whit no problems and got my new harddisks on saturday and installed them and decided on a fresh install. From saturday morning till late sunday evening it downloaded a woping 2meg so I had to re-conect my old hard disk and copy the 300meg file over to the new drive
I normally just go to www.wowwiki.com/patch_mirrors as soon as the background downloader starts popping, downloaded the entire thing last night without a single issue using the links there.
I also did that till I got corrupted rar files one a 500meg and the other a 1 gig file now I use blizz's downloader takes a little longer but I dont have to re-download patches