Patching speed makes 56k baud modems laugh, "Initializing" forever

This is ridiculous, I’ve been playing today and took a small break and now it’s “installing” some 305 MB update. Just the initialization would make 56k baud modems laugh, let alone actual broadbands. And I’m not sure if it’s even downloading it yet or just thinking it might do it someday (yes, at this pace it will be some day, not in next few hours)
If you click on Download Manager it just says the same, Initializing, no estimates (“Calculating”, yeah right, been doing that for over an hour now). Nothing on disk usage, nothing on download. This is a joke.