Installation and server related problems

I'm am having an issue whereby installing H5P on my localhost (MAMP on MacBook Pro) doesn't work. It stalls at "Validating mod_hvp..." I've tried both the manual install and the automatic install methods. Browsing through the forums I coudn't find a solution that works. All my environment components are up to date (PHP 7.2.10, MySQL 5.7.23, Moodle 3.8) and I am using the latest version of H5P found on the moodle plugins database. I have changed the settings of both upload_max_filesize and post_max_size within the php.ini file to 128M.

Hello, my name is Bobby and I handle the marketing operations of a small hobbyist rocket company.

Due to server setting, I am having issues upgrading and downloading and  H5p plugin contents.

I asked the server company, they said wordPress.org is blocking IP address coming from China due to over request issues. I also know its my server and php execution time issues, but I don't have any luck changing it. cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 30000 milliseconds 

Is there a way for me to manually FTP the files to the web directory? 

Thanks in advance.