I logged onto DCM on another machine, very different than my usual (which I'm on now) -- different makers and vintages and connections, and different versions of Windoze and MSIE and Chrome. Their only commonality is that their signals feed through the same DSL modem to the same ISP. I'm trying to download the same files, various of the OUT OUR WAY collections, using both MSIE and Chrome. ALL the d/l's have hung. In a few minutes I'll try the same d/l's at CB+. If no success, I'll try rebooting the DSL modem.
Meanwhile, d/l's from Archive.Org and Proj.Gutenburg and WFMU.Org, and some bit.torrents, are all zipping right along. Is a puzzlement. #8-( Yes, I know those other sites probably have higher-capacity commo than do DCM and CB+ (except maybe WFMU) and I've taken that into account. I can be patient -- for awhile. I hope I won't have to admit defeat here.