I have no problems updating. just this one step.

useing all equipment including raspbian from the tutorial.
I tried saterday night and Sunday morning.

I so pose the site could have been down for quite a while and will try again after work.

read somewhere a time out setting exists and is defaulted to 900 seconds
but my attempts timeout much quicker than that.



*Update:* problem resolved- I guess their site was down all weekend. worked right away this afternoon.
Now I have an error   input/output  when starting cgminer

perhaps because i don't have the lcd keypad kit connected yet. still waiting for it in mail.