Running WGET in Windows this is what I get:
C:\Users\SKDHF\Desktop>wget http://cloud.wifipineapple.com/packages/Packages.gz --2013-07-12 13:18:38-- http://cloud.wifipineapple.com/packages/Packages.gz Resolving cloud.wifipineapple.com... 206.72.192.42 Connecting to cloud.wifipineapple.com|206.72.192.42|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09/ar71xx/generic/ packages/Packages.gz [following] --2013-07-12 13:18:38-- http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09/ ar71xx/generic/packages/Packages.gz Resolving downloads.openwrt.org... 78.24.191.177 Connecting to downloads.openwrt.org|78.24.191.177|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 303339 (296K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `Packages.gz.1'
100%[======================================>] 303,339 252K/s in 1.2s
2013-07-12 13:18:40 (252 KB/s) - `Packages.gz.1' saved [303339/303339]
From the Pineapple via SSH shell:
root@Pineapple:~# opkg update Downloading http://cloud.wifipineapple.com/packages/Packages.gz.
^C
root@Pineapple:~# wget http://cloud.wifipineapple.com/packages/Packages.gz Connecting to cloud.wifipineapple.com (206.72.192.42:80) Connecting to downloads.openwrt.org (78.24.191.177:80) ^C
root@Pineapple:~# ping www.google.com PING www.google.com (74.125.224.243): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 74.125.224.243: seq=0 ttl=52 time=30.455 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.224.243: seq=1 ttl=52 time=28.678 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.224.243: seq=2 ttl=52 time=28.687 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.224.243: seq=3 ttl=52 time=28.960 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.224.243: seq=4 ttl=52 time=28.288 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.224.243: seq=5 ttl=52 time=28.804 ms ^C --- www.google.com ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 28.288/28.978/30.455 ms
root@Pineapple:~# wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09/ar71xx/generic/packages/Packages.gz Connecting to downloads.openwrt.org (78.24.191.177:80) ^C root@Pineapple:~#
Each ^C is when I aborted the transfer after 5 minutes.