wget connection timeout - but everything else works?

[Barnaby Falls]

Using wget in a cygwin bash shell from Win2K Pro. All other browsing works fine 
with other clients. Where can I start looking? Thanks.

$ wget -d http://www.google.com
DEBUG output created by Wget 1.9.1 on cygwin.

--18:04:18--  http://www.google.com/
           => `index.html'
Resolving www.google.com... 216.239.53.99
Caching www.google.com => 216.239.53.99
Connecting to www.google.com[216.239.53.99]:80... connected.
Created socket 3.
Releasing 0x100199c0 (new refcount 1).
---request begin---
GET / HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Wget/1.9.1
Host: www.google.com
Accept: */*
Connection: Keep-Alive

---request end---
Failed writing HTTP request: Connection timed out.
Closing fd 3
Retrying.