Background
I currently have an MSDN subscription and found a need to download some software for a project. Every time I started FTM, the download would say “Interrupted” and the status “Trying to Connect”.
Searching the Internet provided lots of disgruntled posts about FTM, but none that helped.
Solution
This is probably an issue local to my pc/network; but if it helps anyone else, it’s a bonus.
To get it working, I needed to restrict the protocols available for transfer to HTTP. With HTTPS selected, it didn’t work. This may be my over zealous firewall configuration or it may be an issue, but it’s fixed for me now.
