Oy. With Akami involved it does complicate things. But no the certificate isn't the problem. The problem is occuring before the N900 even attempts to connect to downloads.maemo.nokia.com.

IF you aren't familiar with the protocls of the Internet. Applications don't use host names to communicate with Internet sites. Applications use IP addresses. They are represented by 4 numbers separated by dots (i.e 208.191.248.5 ). IP address as analogous to phone numbers of houses. But some silly reaon humans do want to have to remember numbers in order to call someone or reach a site on the 'Net.

So was have the phonebook of the Internet. It's called DNS (Domain Name Service). An application takes the host name of a given Internet site (i.e. downloads.maemo.nokia.com) and the DNS resolver service on the N900, that the IP address of that host name. When the answer comes back, the application then and only then tries to connect to the Internet site.

You N900's problem, it it's not getting an answer back from the DNS service on the N900, or it's taking too long for the answer to be sent.