Interesting. About 20 minutes ago I just finished cloning down linux kernel to my new vm, which was almost 900MB.

I was able to get roughly 1.3MB/s and the connection seen stable. I supposed I was lucky to be serve from a stable server at that time.

EDIT

I thought about contributing after watching this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4

Gonna fine some low hanging fruit like style fixing and then move my way up!