Upgrade to 3.8 failing – timeout / error on line 117

Hello, tried a few times to upgrade this install but to no avail. Have a number of other wordpress installs on the same host with no issues.

Warning: An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with WordPress.org or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums. (WordPress could not establish a secure connection to WordPress.org. Please contact your server administrator.) in /wp-admin/includes/update.php on line 117
Downloading update from https://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.8-new-bundled.zip…

Download failed.: Operation timed out after 300000 milliseconds with 5062325 out of 6327138 bytes received

Installation Failed

Tried searching for a resolution but to no avail. Any help would be much appreciated.