Between the GA Admins and myself we have fixed the autodownloading speed. If you have an old client (vanilla) you will need to download all the mappacks from
http://www.gamearena.com.au/pc/games/ti ... loa-ds.php, or go to
http://downloads.mercenariesguild.net/maps/ to download the ones that you need.
oh, and a message to PwNzA, it seems that the autodownload of svn clients is broken. Though tremfusion and the tjw client has been tested and both work fine.