On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Robert Nesius wrote: > I'd be less suspicious of the U and more suspicious of the ISPs. > Bummer that wget timed out as well, but at least you have it in your > back pocket now for a similar situation in the future. The future arrived quickly because I used wget -c to download an Ubuntu iso from the U's Ubuntu server last night. It helped a lot. Thanks. It would be great if there were a way to find out where along the route the download is getting stuck. Mike