Yea, I understand it downloads many individual files and how patchers work that it doesn't not have anything to do with my network speed. It's been 0 KB/sec for four hours now and downloaded only a few megabytes.
Thought I could copy the dat file to my Backblaze B2 and share it here through my CDN, but as you mentioned, perhaps it contains some sensitive information and isn't wise to share with others.