> One thing you might be able to do is pay $5/mo or so for a Linux VM at > some VPS provider, install and configure Squid, and bounce your own > traffic off of it. Squid will pull down the file faster than you, and > won't impose a connection time limit on you. (Unless you configure it > to do so...)
And you could connect to that squid using an ssh tunnel with compression enabled at its maximum level. Otherwise the gzip ecap module https://code.google.com/p/squid-ecap-gzip/ may help a little but IIRC it only compresses text eg plain, html etc.
