You might think that downloading the 3.1 GB Windows Vista Beta 2 ISO file over a dial-up connection is impossible, but that's just what I did recently.

I started to download it on June 7. Every night, I would start the dial-up connection and let FlashGet download it. This morning, July 3, it's finally over.

So it took me almost a month to download the Windows Vista ISO image. The total download duration is 219 hours, 56 minutes, and 46 seconds. Convert that into days, that's about 9 days.