Anyone else experiencing this? I know that the file itself is broken up into 300MB chunks, so you don't lose much progress whenever you click 'retry' but it's still a huge pain.

Also, in my download location, I have TW2EE_Patch numbers 2-26 right now but no number 1, should I be worried? Did number 1 get downloaded to a separate location by accident or will I have to re-download all of this again?

that's normal patch 1 will release when the last 300 mb comes out on the 17th

Ah, thanks for that! I had no idea.

I was worried that I'd accidentally changed the download location after one of the many disconnects and had corrupted/lost a file. With my temperamental internet connection, I'd really rather not have had to redownload another 9GB. Thanks for the reassurance!

Me too, sometimes because my internet connection or maybe server overloading.
And yes, my download starts with TW2EE_Patch-2.bin.