There is always a concern that the speed limitation may be caused by your local Wi-Fi connection being awful. So before you go much further, see what your speed is when you run a download speed test. Just enter "speed test" in to any Browser search window and pick one, and run it to see a typical best-case speed under current conditions.
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When the Apple downloader starts up, it looks for two things: An estimate of how fast your connection might be, and whether it can combine your download with someone else's download to save overhead at its end.
If you don't like the speed at which it will be downloaded to you (as indicated by time in days) cancel it, and ask again in a few minutes. In many cases, the answer will be different.