Q: We could not complete your iTunes Store request.  The network connection could not be established.

The Parental Control toggle didn't work for me.

Still keep getting the arrow.

Was able to buy an album on my iPhone just fine, downloaded it just fine too, but can't see the music on iTunes on my PC, nor buy anything on iTunes on the PC.

Thanks for the post singerish. I just tried it, but no go here. I just upgraded to iTunes 11.0.2 on Mountain Lion 10.8.2 and started receiving this error about not being able to connect to the iTunes Stolre.

Add myself to the list. Same issue.

Same here.I read on another post someone said that Apple may be having problems with the itunes servers and to wait for them to fix it *shrugs*

I first had "An unknown error...(-3212)". Then the ones you all show.  I just happened to have a Win 8 Update and finally updated to iTunes 11.0.2.26 tonight so I have been messing with firewalls and reviewing all of the itty bitty details of both based on the useless support docs.

I'm just going to hang it up for another day.  Sorry all of you are having problems too.

add me in, itunes doesnt work on both ipod touch and pc

what is happening?

yeah. I thought I was the only one. Will use advise. At least I am not alone

This appears to be working for me. Thanks!

I tried the parental control and tried signing out and back in again, neither worked and I can't sign into my iTunes now. Hopefully this will be fixed by morning...sorry to all that are having the same issue. At least it can be safe to assume that it's not our systems but something on Apple's servers that is the issue.

Add me to the list. I am facing this issue as well.

I too am experiencing the very same and am comforted to know I am not alone. I'm getting consecutive error messages on my iMac, OS X 10.8.3.

First

We could not complete your iTunes Store request.

An unknown error occurred (-50)

 

There was an error in the iTunes Store. Please try again later.

Then

We could not complete your iTunes Store request.

The network connection could not be established.

 

There was an error in the iTunes Store. Please try again later.

I cleared my iTunes cache, then logged out and can no longer log in.

Thanks for the parental control thing, it worked for me.  I appreciate that info. 

This worked for me:

Despite this article being out of date (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3288), disabling the iTunes store in Parental Control preferences then re-enabling the store worked for me.

Unfortunately, I did the software upgrade on my Ipod and my Ipad and up until then everything worked just fine.  I've tried all the suggestions posted and nothing fixes it.  Any other ideas out there?  I'm going to guess that there's a bug in the upgrade?  Everything worked just fine before on the devices, and oddly now, I can't even access from the PC...  Not impressed.

Your parental control solution has fully resolved my issue. Thank you, thank you