Thanks Patrick. must have been one of their mirrors down. They have ftp1 ~ ftp8 as mirrors. Tried it again and it's DLing fine now.

Jooel,
Was thinking of maybe doing it with COM but up until now was working just fine. If it ain't broke, why fix it? What do you have in mind?
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