need something better than wget!

[Jude DaShiell]

I've been repeatedly failing to download the current speakup_netinst 
debian release from the people.debian.org/~shane/ web site.  I used 
tries=0 as one of the wget options and even this gets me iso's that fail 
integrity checks every time.  The install process consistently breaks on 
both speakup and speakup26 just as the installer is about to partition the 
disk using guided partitions and selecting a desktop type machine.  Is the 
integrity check actually supposed to succeed with this distribution?  If 
so, I need to find something far more effective than wget as respects file 
download integrity.