Comment 6 for bug 984373

The downloader is written using a well-exercised python library; it's unlikely to have bugs that cause hangs due to slow servers. Obviously if the server is *slow*, it will take a long time to download the data, and there'll be no feedback in the GUI while this is happening, but that's nothing new.

When the hang happens, are you able to pull up the terminal showing the package progress? Is it possible you just didn't wait long enough for the download to finish from the really slow server?