Error ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT: what should I do?

Modern Internet browsers and systems for connecting to the World Wide Web, although they are high-tech developments, nevertheless, very often when visiting any web resources, as well as when working on a local network, an ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT error message may be output. What to do in this case? Let's try to briefly consider the method of eliminating such a problem.

What is ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT?

First, let's look at what it's all about. If you approach the translation of this term from English verbatim, then, roughly speaking, it can be treated as a connection interruption in connection with the expiration of the waiting time. Expectations of what, you ask?

The fact is that when you enter any page on the Internet or when you access a local computer terminal connected to, say, a home or corporate network, a request is sent to the server. When you receive a response, either the web page is downloaded or the remote computer is accessed. The nature of this type of access is such that a certain amount of time is allocated in it to respond to a request. If this time is exceeded, the system informs the user that the connection is aborted and displays the notification ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT. What to do and how to get rid of this situation, we now and understand, along the way examining the main reasons for its occurrence.

Why does the error message occur?

First of all, you need to clearly distinguish between types of errors. There are two interpretations of messages. The first position described above is, as it were, common (standard), but there is one more point related to the appearance of the error net :: ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT. Here you can also say that the error is due to a network connection violation . And this applies equally to local networks and Internet connections.

Often, the cause of such errors may be unstable communication, because permanent interrupts do not provide an opportunity to receive a full package of response data.

Very common is the situation with online games that use the multiplayer mode. It's clear, after all, that with a sufficiently high popularity of the game and a huge number of players currently connected to the game server, the latter may simply not be able to withstand such a number of simultaneous requests. This is somewhat reminiscent of known situations with DDoS attacks, when server disruption is provoked by too many concurrent calls.

Sometimes the appearance of such an error may be due to the functioning of the anti-virus software or the built-in firewall (firewall) of Windows Firewall. Such security tools can erroneously identify the data of a website as potentially unwanted or dangerous content, although in fact it is not.

In some cases, the error may be due to incorrect configuration of the proxy server in the system or attempts to anonymously access the Network through online proxy servers in order to hide its true IP address. For all these situations, there is a solution. Let's consider each of them.

Error ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT: what should I do?

If a mistake occurs when you try to access an Internet site, the easiest way to get rid of this is to re-enter after a certain period of time.

By the way, often enough such errors appear in the Google Chrome browser. In general, it is better to reboot the computer system together with all the installed routers such as ADSL modems or Wi-Fi routers. Note, after disconnecting it is desirable to maintain a minimum of 10-second pause to reset the settings of the routers.

In the case of games or content blocking by Windows security systems or antiviruses, you must enter a list of exceptions (allowed sites) for the resource of the game or the site with which you intend to work.

As for proxy servers, as a rule, they are not used in the basic settings. In this case, in network connections, using the network settings, you need to uncheck the box "Use proxy server". If such a situation arises with a connection on local networks, you can use the option "Do not use a proxy server for local addresses". If the proxy is still used, you need to contact the provider and get the correct personal settings.

Modifying the Hosts File

But there are situations when even using the above methods, you still get a message that ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT error has occurred. What to do in this situation? Use the editing of the system file Hosts.

In order not to rummage through the file managers in its search, you just need to write the line notepad% windir% \ system32 \ drivers \ etc \ hosts in the "Run" menu. After opening the file, you can see that somewhere below there is a record ":: 1 localhost". In the standard version, it should be the last. If there is something else after this line, you just need to delete it and save the changes when you exit. Now it only remains to restart the computer terminal, and the problem will disappear. Note: in some cases, if the problem is related to the "locale", you may need to reboot the server through which the connection is made.

The result

Here, in fact, and everything that concerns connectivity problems and situations when an ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT error occurs. As you can see, there is nothing terrible in this, and the ways of correcting such seemingly impartial situations are quite simple. It's just that sometimes you need to pay attention to each specific case, find out the root cause and apply this or that solution.