....several hours later - now that the bittorrent tracker site is up again I
see this message...
"I am aware of the occasional disappearances of this router. So far there
have been 2 ~2 hour outages around 6am (pacific), and one on the 24th in the
afternoon. I'm doing my best to make sure these don't happen again."

And I downloaded disk 2 OK , also took about 5 hours.