urlopen error _ssl.c:584: The handshake operation timed out

[Belthazor4011]

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D:\>youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" -i "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5nc_ZtjKW1htCVZVRxlQAQ" -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--extract-audio', '--audio-format', 'mp3', '--audio-quality', '0', '-o', '%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-i', 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5nc_ZtjKW1htCVZVRxlQAQ', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.08.13
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.15063
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-86977-g5859b5b, ffprobe N-86977-g5859b5b
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:channel] UC5nc_ZtjKW1htCVZVRxlQAQ: Downloading channel page
[youtube:playlist] UU5nc_ZtjKW1htCVZVRxlQAQ: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Uploads from MrSuicideSheep
[youtube:playlist] UU5nc_ZtjKW1htCVZVRxlQAQ: Downloading page #1
[youtube:playlist] UU5nc_ZtjKW1htCVZVRxlQAQ: Downloading page #2
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: <urlopen error _ssl.c:584: The handshake operation timed out> (caused by URLError(timeout('_ssl.c:584: The handshake operation timed out',),))
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpc3a66tbr\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 502, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpc3a66tbr\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2166, in urlopen
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 464, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 482, in _open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpc3a66tbr\build\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 1086, in https_open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1185, in do_open
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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Same error keeps coming up, Ive tried on different days and on different times off the day. Sometimes it goes wrong on page #2 sometimes page #7, where it goes wrong seems to be random. Also it takes a good 5 minutes for it to time out and create the error. No sure whats going on.

[dstftw]

Most likely an issue with your network connection.