Originally Posted by Fuckin Bill

Do pages come up ok from machine 2 in a browser? Can you download just a thumb, and not a page, from machine 2?

Maybe load is too high and it just really is timing out. I would tend to think your problem is on the machine sending, not on the machine trying to pull. If wget works for other sites, you've either got a problem with the DNS where you are using wget, or a problem on the machine's response time you are trying to grab from.

You could also check to make sure there's nothing in any htaccess files or the apache config that might be blocking wget. Do wget --help at a prompt and use the switch to tell it to report itself as IE or Netscape and see if that works.