Q:

Trying to download a file to a directory on a remote server

I am getting this error

Exception calling "DownloadFile" with "2" argument(s): "An exception occurred during a WebClient request." 

From this script
$username = "Administrator"
$password = "PASSWORD"
$secstr = New-Object -TypeName System. Security. SecureString
$password. ToCharArray() | ForEach-Object {$secstr. AppendChar($_)}
$cred = new-object -typename System. Management. Automation. PSCredential -argumentlist $username, $secstr
$url = "http://www.website.com/file.zip"
$path = "C:\file.zip"
$client = new-object System. Net. WebClient
$client. DownloadFile( $url, $path )
Invoke-Command -ComputerName 69.69.69.69 -ScriptBlock { $client } -credential $cred

Running on Windows Web Server 2008
Script purpose is to download file.zip to a remote server (there are hundreds of servers so I can't be prompted for the password each time) and see the progress bar of the download. 
Any ideas? 

A:

Try
$username = "Administrator"
$password = "PASSWORD"
$secstr = New-Object -TypeName System. Security. SecureString
$password. ToCharArray() | ForEach-Object {$secstr. AppendChar($_)}
$cred = new-object -typename System. Management. Automation. PSCredential -argumentlist $username, $secstr

$command =  {
    $url = "http://www.website.com/file.zip"
    $path = "C:\file.zip"
    $client = new-object System. Net. WebClient
    $client. DownloadFile( $url, $path ) 
}

   Invoke-Command -ComputerName 69.69.69.69 -ScriptBlock $command -credential $cred

