' FTP setup loFtpWebRequest = System.Net.FtpWebRequest.Create(New Uri(lcURI)) loFtpWebRequest.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential(cUsername, cPassword) loFtpWebRequest.Method = System.Net.WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile loFtpWebRequest.UseBinary = True loFtpWebRequest.UsePassive = True loFtpWebResponse = loFtpWebRequest.GetResponse() loStream = loFtpWebResponse.GetResponseStream()I am not sure if this could be related since I changed the mode to UsePassive=True yesterday.