diff --git a/bob/bio/base/test/utils.py b/bob/bio/base/test/utils.py
index 7d757b036e28af9bf66ecab2d09f38e2ddc0c29d..8a87ed1e2eb3beda858d669aa131d18242921d81 100644
--- a/bob/bio/base/test/utils.py
+++ b/bob/bio/base/test/utils.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import os
 import sys
 import functools
 from nose.plugins.skip import SkipTest
-
+from bob.extension.download import download_and_unzip
 
 # based on: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6796492/temporarily-redirect-stdout-stderr
 class Quiet(object):
@@ -91,31 +91,20 @@ def atnt_database_directory():
   if os.path.exists(atnt_default_directory):
     return atnt_default_directory
 
-  import sys, tempfile
-  if sys.version_info[0] <= 2:
-    import urllib2 as urllib
-  else:
-    import urllib.request as urllib
+# TODO: THIS SHOULD BE A CLASS METHOD OF bob.db.atnt database
+  source_url = ['http://bobconda.lab.idiap.ch/public/data/bob/att_faces.zip',
+                'http://www.idiap.ch/software/bob/data/bob/att_faces.zip']
 
+  import tempfile
   atnt_downloaded_directory = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='atnt_db_')
-  db_url = "http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/DTG/attarchive/pub/data/att_faces.zip"
-  logger.warn("Downloading the AT&T database from '%s' to '%s' ...", db_url, atnt_downloaded_directory)
+  logger.warn("Downloading the AT&T database from '%s' to '%s' ...", source_url, atnt_downloaded_directory)
   logger.warn("To avoid this, please download the database manually, extract the data and set the ATNT_DATABASE_DIRECTORY environment variable to this directory.")
 
   # to avoid re-downloading in parallel test execution
   os.environ['ATNT_DATABASE_DIRECTORY'] = atnt_downloaded_directory
 
-  # download
-  url = urllib.urlopen(db_url)
-  local_zip_file = os.path.join(atnt_downloaded_directory, 'att_faces.zip')
-  dfile = open(local_zip_file, 'wb')
-  dfile.write(url.read())
-  dfile.close()
-
-  # unzip
-  import zipfile
-  zip = zipfile.ZipFile(local_zip_file)
-  zip.extractall(atnt_downloaded_directory)
-  os.remove(local_zip_file)
+  if not os.path.exists(atnt_downloaded_directory):
+    os.mkdir(atnt_downloaded_directory)    
+  download_and_unzip(source_url, os.path.join(atnt_downloaded_directory, "att_faces.zip"))
 
   return atnt_downloaded_directory