Usually, Google Chrome has no trouble downloading files. Withal, sometimes you'll come across an issue accompanied by the message "download failed: network error." Thankfully, there are a few simple ways — and a few not-and then-simple ones — to fix this trouble.

Cheque Your Internet Connection

The very first stride in troubleshooting this error is to bank check that your cyberspace connection is working as intended. To cheque this, visit speedtest.internet and run a test, making sure cipher is running on your computer except your browser. If you lot get a result without any spikes downward then there are probably no issues with your internet connexion.

If you lot get an uneven result, so with large spikes in speed, or you go very low results (less than 1 or 2 Mbps), and then you have a connectedness consequence. The first thing you should do is switch off your VPN or proxy if yous have one running and if that doesn't help, reset your router.

If that doesn't modify annihilation, that means the upshot is across your control and you should reach out to your internet service provider and see what'southward going on.

Change Download Location

If in that location'south nada wrong with your internet connection, there could be an consequence with the folder y'all're downloading to. The best manner to check this is to change the default download folder. We'll recap the master steps here.

  1. In Chrome, select the three dots in the top correct of your screen and in the menu that comes upwards, select settings.
  1. In the side by side screen, select advanced from the left-hand toolbar, and selection downloads in the carte du jour that drops down.
  1. You'll run into a new menu in the center of the screen: at the very top is an entry for location and a button that says alter. Click that push button and you'll be prompted to choice a new location, we recommend yous just create a new ane and telephone call it "new downloads" or something like that.

With the new download location gear up, endeavour downloading the file over again. If information technology notwithstanding doesn't work, in that location are a few more things to endeavor.

Employ Incognito Mode

Some other issue causing the "download failed: network error" issue could exist that y'all're running an extension that'southward interfering with the download. The easiest way to get around that effect is to simply use incognito mode, also known as private browsing.

To switch on incognito fashion, merely select the 3 dots at the top correct of the screen and click on new incognito window. Alternatively, y'all could also utilise the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + Due north someday you're in Chrome.

In the new window, navigate to the page where you constitute the download, and initiate it over again.

Try Another Browser

If Chrome withal isn't downloading the file, then the next measure out is to boot up another browser. There are plenty to choose from, but two of our favorites are Mozilla Firefox and Vivaldi. Just download the installer for either browser, open up information technology when it's set up, and so try downloading the file once again.

If that doesn't work either, so the problem isn't with Chrome, information technology's with something else. The start step is to take a expect at your antivirus software.

Bank check Antivirus

Antivirus programs sometimes will become a little overzealous and block downloads that are otherwise just fine, but are tripping some advanced protocols. To get around this issue, you can either temporarily disable the antivirus suite altogether — usually through an icon in the organization tray — or simply switch off these advanced functions.

The 2nd approach is probably the safest, so best to attempt that beginning. All the same, since every antivirus program is dissimilar, you'll take to do some navigating on your own. In most antivirus programs, you'll demand to find the settings screen, and then go to a carte that's probable called something like advanced.

This is what it looks like in ESET antivirus.

There, you're going to accept to find a setting chosen HTTPS scanning or encrypted connection scanning. If information technology's checked, uncheck it, and try the download again. Regardless of whether it works or not, make sure to check it again after y'all're done to remain protected.

Update Network Drivers

Another problem could exist that your network driver — also known as a network adapter — isn't up to date. To set that in Windows vii, eight or 10, just go to device manager either by searching for it or finding it in the control panel, nether hardware and audio.

At that place, find the entry that says network adapters and open up it. You'll get a listing, discover i that says something along the lines of "desktop adapter" or has the proper noun of the manufacturer who made your computer or motherboard. Right-click, and so select update driver. Windows will take intendance of the remainder.

Reset Google Chrome

With all the above methods exhausted, at that place's really but i thing left to do, namely resetting Google Chrome. It'southward pretty much the nuclear option every bit information technology volition besides wipe all your settings and extensions and all other preferences, but it's the just remaining solution you take.

  1. To reset Chrome, select the three buttons in the top right of the screen and go to settings.
  1. In the settings screen, either select the advanced tab in the left-mitt pane then reset settings at the bottom of that carte, or scroll all the way down in the central menu and notice the reset settings button there.
  1. You'll exist asked to confirm your choice, do so, and then expect for Chrome to piece of work.

After, you'll take a brand-new Chrome, which should fix whatever recurring network mistake issues. Once again, resetting Chrome is pretty desperate, so we recommend trying all other solutions first before trying this one.