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[Dylan McCall <question78189@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #78189 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/78189

Dylan McCall proposed the following answer:
Have you tried downloading from a different mirror? Sometimes specific
mirrors have issues further down the line.

Also, I agree with actionparsnip here: Using bittorrent, if your ISP allows it (please yell at them for me if they don't), is the best way to go. Torrents are faster; they can be paused and resumed easily so you don't need to do it all at once; and they take stress off of web servers so that it costs less to distribute stuff. (Which is great for Ubuntu as a whole).
How it works is everyone downloads at full speed from many sources, and while downloading you also upload chunks of that same file. This way, everybody contributes to keeping that file available for others to download at high speed. (Don't worry, it's completely secure; the only thing being uploaded is that file you are downloading, and nobody has access to your system).

If you are already using Ubuntu, a good bittorrent client is Transmission. You can open that from the Applications menu, under Internet -> Transmission BitTorrent Client.
If you are using Mac OS X, Transmission is also a nice choice. The web site for the application is here: http://www.transmissionbt.com/

If you are using Windows, check out µTorrent: http://www.utorrent.com/
(Another choice, if for whatever reason that doesn't work, is Deluge: http://deluge-torrent.org/)

Now, with one of these installed, all you need to do is download and
open the file that actionparsnip has linked to and your shiny new
torrent client will open to start downloading Ubuntu 9.04 :)

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