On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:36:01 +0900, Bryan Parker
<puntspeedchunk@yahoo.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going
with:

>Michael Cash <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> said:
>
>>If you've been having trouble with downloads due to slow speeds or
>>broken connections, your problems have just been solved. Log on and
>>take a look inside the "Great Download Tool" folder.
>
>I just got a message from someone that said, "A
>connection attempt failed because the connected
>party did not properly respond after a period of
>time, or established connection failed because
>connected host has failed to respond.
>ERROR   ->  Connection closed." 

Maybe you were trying to establish a connection on the wrong port.
Servers hate it when you do that.