In this article, you will learn to remove "You are offline. Check your connection" if you also get YouTube errors in your system. When you try to access YouTube to watch some interesting or important videos, suddenly, "You are offline. Please check your connection" appears. YouTube error. The thing about a bug is that it can happen to anyone and at any point in time. At this point, all you can do is troubleshoot accessing the video. Here I bring you the most effective solution to this problem.
Solution 1: Check Network connection
Every time you see "You are offline. Check your connection,". Youtube error on your web browser, the first and foremost thing to check is your network connection. You need to make sure that the Internet is allowed and active on your system from where you are trying to access it.
If your system gets an IP from the DHCP server, make sure you have the IP assigned to your system. Sometimes the system can't get an IP from the DHCP server because the Internet stops working on the system. In those cases, you can first restart your network connection and see if it helps; if not, you should also reset your network adapter to see if this is the way it should be done.
Sometimes even if you have the IP assigned correctly, YouTube won't open either, so in that case, you need to open the command prompt in administrator mode and run the following commands:
- netsh int ip reset
- netsh winsock reset
- ipconfig /flushdns
- ipconfig /release
- ipconfig /renew
- exit
After running above commands, click on Open Network and Internet Settings from the bottom right Network Icon. Click on the Properties of the Network Adapter currently in use. Then click on Internet Protocol version 4 and assign the below Google's DNS Server IP address to use:-
- Preferred DNS Server: 8.8.8.8
- Alternate DNS Server: 8.8.4.4
Enable validate settings option and then click on ok to save and proceed with the changes. Finally restart your system to update the new changes.
Solution 2: Check Access through Proxy
Usually, you use a PAC file or a proxy server to access the Internet. You will also see the YouTube error "You are offline. Please check your connection" if the proxy does not allow YouTube. In this case, you need to allow the YouTube URL from the proxy server or the PAC file you are using.Solution 3: Clear Browser Cache
- Open Chrome Browser.
- At the top right, click More .
- Click More tools. Clear browsing data.
- At the top, choose a time range. To delete everything, select All time.
- Next to "Cookies and other site data" and "Cached images and files", check the boxes.
- Click Clear data.