Hi and welcome Johnny5,
May I suggest you use the BitTorrent download. It can be found here. The download speeds seem to be much faster and more reliable compared to the standard download.

Unfortunately, you require BitTorrent, or another such program to open the .torrent package, which is the "script" required for the BitTorrent program to be able to download EB 0.81a full. You can find the latest version of the BitTorrent downloader here.

Hope this helps you, good luck, cheers!