27.6 MB is -3% of 3.12 GB

If you believe IE6's download progress indicator (and everyone does, right?), 27.6 MB is -3% of 3.12 GB. I was downloading Vista Beta 2 and, of course, was experiencing problems - the download servers were flooded. I didn't want to use the Akamai Download Manager, so I tried the "plain" method a few times and got this:

I finally resorted to the Akamai Download Manager. The results were much better. No, I didn't get a successful download for another 24 hours. But not having a negative progress indicator is an improvement...