NPM install failure on FreeBSD

[Daniel]

So I've been trying to install NodeJS + NPM on my FreeBSD server for a
while. With some help from a post on superuser.com (http://
superuser.com/questions/262385/getting-node-js-0-4-2-to-build-install-
on-freebsd-8-2-amd64) I managed to get NodeJS 0.4.11 running. But now
trying to install NPM I'm not getting anywhere.

With the easy installation I get to "fetching: http://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-1.0.27.tgz"
and then it just stops doing anything. Likewise when installing from
source it gets to "node cli.js install -g -f" and then it hangs there
and doesn't progress.

I'd love it if you had any ideas for me!

Thanks,
Daniel