

Without getting more details about your setup its hard to speculate more.Subscribe Method 1 – Disabling Firewall/Anti-Virus Software on Your Computer If you don't have any problem to reach it from your desktop client it might be, that your desktop client is using active mode, while wget uses passive mode, or that there is no firewall/NAT router between your desktop and the server, but between your shared hosting and the server there is one.

The first time I made a note of the error, it tried ports in the 487X range. With the "couldn't connect" error, on each retry, it attempts a different port number (not 21, which it has already successfully connected to). couldn't connect to port 1128: Connection timed out

Here's the command I'm using to initiate the transfer: wget -m login is successful, then these commands are issued: => SYST. The "source" server is a Microsoft server, and the FTP client on my desktop has no problem with it. I'm using an SSH connection to the "destination" server (a Linux box on shared hosting) to run the wget command. In attempting to transfer all files from one web server ("source") to another ("destination"), the wget command is connecting via FTP, but cannnot proceed beyond the PASV command.
