and then it stops for a couple of minutes
but eventually completed and I got a good md5 out of it
safe@ubuntu-16gb-nbg1-1:/var/safenode-manager/services$ md5sum linuxmint-21.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso
98213481fef82b9337de96469edb5089 linuxmint-21.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso
thats on a Hetzner VPS
on my dedicated Hetzner box, it works as well now
safe@wave1-bigbox:~$ md5sum linuxmint-21.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso
98213481fef82b9337de96469edb5089 linuxmint-21.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso
and also from home 
willie@gagarin:~/Downloads$ md5sum linuxmint-21.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso
98213481fef82b9337de96469edb5089 linuxmint-21.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso
Thank you for your persistence in this @aatonnomicc, hopefully we will see the same rigour applied in exploring just why it was failing over the past day or so?
Cos problems like these simply cannot be waved away 5 weeks before “launch”.
@chriso @joshuef we see that chunks e1b28c(11100001) and 529e72(01010010) feature most prominently in the error reports above.
What strings should we grep for to best assist you in getting to the bottom of this?