This can be closed. We were being affected by our proxies; we had to work around the issues the proxies were causing and then used a local mirror install. We remain a little confused over RSYNC and whether that was causing the problem, as standard HTTP protocol is not affected by the proxy environment.
This can be closed. We were being affected by our proxies; we had to work around the issues the proxies were causing and then used a local mirror install. We remain a little confused over RSYNC and whether that was causing the problem, as standard HTTP protocol is not affected by the proxy environment.