diff --git a/studio/setup.sh b/studio/setup.sh
index f623c9ab0b..8b81c215ec 100755
--- a/studio/setup.sh
+++ b/studio/setup.sh
@@ -972,14 +972,39 @@ install_python_stack() {
     python "$SCRIPT_DIR/install_python_stack.py"
 }
 
+# ── HTTP GET to stdout (supports curl and wget) ──
+# install.sh accepts either transport everywhere (its download() and _http_get),
+# so a wget-only box gets that far and then stalled here, where curl was the only
+# way to fetch anything. Same preference order: curl, else wget.
+_setup_http_get() {
+    if command -v curl >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        curl -LsSf "$1"
+    elif command -v wget >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        wget -qO- "$1"
+    else
+        return 1
+    fi
+}
+
+# Same, with a deadline, for the checks that must not hang the install.
+_setup_http_get_timed() {
+    if command -v curl >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        curl -fsSL --max-time 5 "$1"
+    elif command -v wget >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        wget -qO- --timeout=5 "$1"
+    else
+        return 1
+    fi
+}
+
 USE_UV=false
 if command -v uv &>/dev/null; then
     USE_UV=true
 elif {
     if _is_verbose; then
-        curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
+        _setup_http_get https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
     else
-        curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh > /dev/null 2>&1
+        _setup_http_get https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh > /dev/null 2>&1
     fi
 }; then
     export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
@@ -1020,7 +1045,7 @@ import sys; from importlib.metadata import version
 print(version(sys.argv[1]))
 " "$_PKG_NAME" 2>/dev/null || echo "")
 
-    LATEST_VER=$(curl -fsSL --max-time 5 "https://pypi.org/pypi/$_PKG_NAME/json" 2>/dev/null \
+    LATEST_VER=$(_setup_http_get_timed "https://pypi.org/pypi/$_PKG_NAME/json" 2>/dev/null \
         | "$VENV_DIR/bin/python" -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['info']['version'])" 2>/dev/null \
         || echo "")