The title of this post is what you’ll get while installing .NET 3.0. Since version 3.0 is additive to the version 2.0, the installer is only about 2.5MB and when launched, it checks your machine, decides on what has to be downloaded, downloads only that and then installs the bits.

I find the message about disconnecting from the Internet funny because:

• most of the people I know have broadband, have had it for years, and naturally they never disconnect from the Internet
• even though the message makes sense if you are on a dial-up connection, who in their right mind would download 20–30MB worth of code over a dial-up connection?

At least the downloader does its best to estimate the time it’ll take to download everything so if you find it too long, you can abort the process early.