I would Recommend "DownLoad Accelerator Plus". It creates multiple connections to the site and you can have about 10 connections download the same file at once. It also allows you to resume your download.

It can be found at http://www.download.com

I would also like to recommend KNOPPIX. I just found out about KNOPPIX and love it. It is a linux operating system that can be ran right off the disk w/o installation. I also would like to recommend Linux YELLOWDOG. It is a very good operating system, and i haven't had any problems with it yet.

Actually..... as we speek i am downloading a newer version of YELLOWDOG from LINUXISO.ORG with DOWNLOAD ACCELERATOR PLUS, and its going at about 90 KBPs.