Between them, the file mirrors listed on ftp.html have significant
bandwidth available, and it's not like this is some 4GB-per-arch OS
for a basic installation, you're talking a couple of hundred MB.
Just pick a mirror from the list and download the relevant
installation files. If it's too slow, pick another.

Testing a handful of mirrors, even though it's release day,
I still see pretty decent speeds:

toronto         20Mbit/sec
paris           70Mbit/sec
zurich          50Mbit/sec
london          440Mbit/sec
orlando         10Mbit/sec
stockholm       40Mbit/sec
amsterdam       50Mbit/sec

(I'm in the UK so obviously nearby mirrors will do better for me -
that is how TCP works - my reported speeds are likely to favour
mirrors with IPv6 as I have quite a lot better/faster connectivity
that way).

Even if there was a problem, bittorrent can only usefully cover
the base OS not packages which account for the bulk of transfers,
so it would add a lot of complexity and fragility with little benefit.

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