Once upon a time, Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org said:
Many of those packages are just going to need to get updated to the latest versions over the network eventually. If you've got the bandwidth for bittorrent, you've got the bandwidth to do a network install.
That makes a big assumption: that they location with bandwidth is the location being installed.
Even with DSL at home, I often download large things at work (OC3 >> DSL) and carry them home on DVD (or notebook hard drive).