Ha ha! Once again, I make people jealous...
Just finished downloading the entire MTL2 on a FreeBSD machine that I have shell and web access to, took less than ten minutes to get the whole lot (I was having trouble feeding the URLs to the machine quickly enough...)

The slow bit will be getting it from that machine to home... Just debating whether I should SFTP it off or "hide" it on my webspace and get it using ordinary HTTP GET...
EDIT: Oh, I have a wget "script" now for anyone that wants it. I don't want to distribute it too widely, since it is pointing at specific servers (completely bypassing the load-balancing scripts IVAO have put in place) so PM if you would like a copy.