How true, how true...

[teske]

Worst patch day ever for me . Used to be fine , smooth and quick . This one was 13% in , refused to go any further for 4 hours and kept telling me I was behind a firewall which was turned off before patching . After 4 hours , gave in and used a third party site , got the patch in minutes .

Well what happened is probably this:
The tracker was down.
Your client couldn't reach the tracker.
And concluded you were behind a firewall.
Client switches to slow direct download.
Which never gets you anywhere.

My tip:
If the client thinks you are beind a firewall, and you definately aren't: Restart the client. It will try to autodetect again.