ZK Getting started - Slow download

This has been mentioned periodically but it's ever so annoying downloading update packages at 15kbs, This IS regular, and many experience it, I here is from many, but most tolerate it. From a new users POV, Id give up and try something else from just having to download 200mb for an hour.

Want more users?: fix this.

So steam release will solve these problems, ie: get from different server?

Or at least make it so that when the download stops, it restarts itself after 10-15 sec. The same for maps. I've got a ton of maps that are half-downloaded because it'll d/l say 1 mb and then "fail". I have to go and manually click retry each time. This seems like a small thing to do (maybe it's not ... in which case I apologise) but it would be cool to have.

In the meantime the fastest way to cure this is to ask for a steam key. Won't help with non-bundled maps though.