Downloading NOAA Forecasts

I am having trouble also, I have the following address - weather.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/zone/wi/wiz066.txt and the file IS there, but the noaa site seems painfully slow. Could this be a problem? Also, I posted a different question about this, and I never seem to get any kind of “forecast” icon on my desktop of WD.

UPDATE: although the file wiz066.txt DOES eventually show up in a regular ftp program (again, slow) - WD creates a file labeled wiz066.txt, but it is empty. Any thoughts?