Unable to download webpage

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Unable to download the videos. Please help! Thank you.
Code as below:
PS F:\python\Scripts> .\youtube-dl -f 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLpsIuh
Tb8k
[youtube] RLpsIuhTb8k: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 10060] > (caused by URL
Error(error(10060, ''),))
PS F:\python\Scripts>

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Post the output of .\youtube-dl -v -f 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLpsIuhTb8k.

Before more information, this looks like a network issue. Can you watch this video in browsers without any proxy/VPN? Other previous reports indicate particular antivirus or firewall softwares are blocking youtube-dl. Could you try again with turning them off?