Well, this is how it went:

the first attempt started me at position 6 in the queue and dropped into cannot download after about five minutes;

the second attempt froze all the applications running;

after restarting, the third attempt started me at position 16 in the queue and then dropped me into cannot download after about one minute;

all subsequent attempts show immediate cannot download messages.

So, the good news is that we made a connection but the download itself did not follow.

Looks like a good trick in the making.

Good luck with it.