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Cannot seem to upgrade iPhone 4S to 5.1 through iTunes. Says "cannot establish network connection" What's up?

I'm trying to update my 4S iphone through iTunes but keep getting message saying "cannot establish a network connection" . What's up with this?

iPhone 4S, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Mar 13, 2012 12:58 PM

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Posted on Mar 13, 2012 1:30 PM

In  > System Preferences... > Network > Advanced ... button > DNS >

key in (add in)

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220


The numbers above are from OpenDNS.

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Cannot seem to upgrade iPhone 4S to 5.1 through iTunes. Says "cannot establish network connection" What's up?

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