My Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Published\CookedPC\Maps
You don't have to do it, but it will save you time between maps on my server. Also depends on you connection. Maps generally don't take longer than a minute at most for me.
Lol, I didn't realize when i put those links up. That's like 3 1/2 gigs of downloads! You can get by with just the patches for now so it doesn't really take another week
Your redirect is insanely fast. I get 1.5MB on it. Unfortunately there is a disparity between connections. For some people the map downloads take forever. If you haven't had a problem with the map waits, I wouldn't worry about downloading the map pack. A 60MB map takes me under a minute personally.