http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22364
--- Comment #3 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2010-04-15 15:40:56 --- (In reply to comment #2)
I was thinking that we're not handling the 404 right; maybe the native one is smarter about retrying, or something like that. We seem to just sit there for ages.
Have you tried timing a fresh install under both?
Is this with the blizzard downloader getting the full installer? Or are you running the full installer, and it's downloading the latest patches?