diff --git a/install.ps1 b/install.ps1
index 3f26cd07..6bc44b5f 100644
--- a/install.ps1
+++ b/install.ps1
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
     $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
     $defaultInstallUrl = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Abdess/retrobios/main/install.py"
-    $defaultInstallSha256 = "2409cff28ad4eed1546161aa5abd6808fcd6a010bda7943eb1076f4ab0559c9f"
+    $defaultInstallSha256 = "caec72e5ebd146509e3b1fabc7d8d4c5c921567592d6d1581df6e5cc50f3e96f"
     $maximumInstallerBytes = 2MB
     $installerExit = 0
     $installer = if ($PSScriptRoot) { Join-Path $PSScriptRoot "install.py" } else { $null }
diff --git a/install.py b/install.py
index e3dae02f..2c87e2f0 100644
--- a/install.py
+++ b/install.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import platform
 import re
 import shlex
 import shutil
+import socket
 import stat
 import subprocess
 import sys
@@ -2711,6 +2712,8 @@ def _download_one(
             reason = f"HTTP {exc.code}"
             if exc.code in (403, 429):
                 reason += " (GitHub rate limit or access refused)"
+            if exc.code >= 500 or exc.code == 429:
+                reason = NetworkReason(reason)
             if verbose:
                 print(f"    Attempt {attempt} failed: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
             if tmp_path is not None and partial is None and tmp_path.exists():
@@ -2731,6 +2734,8 @@ def _download_one(
                 # place is not a folder this user cannot write.
                 reason = READ_ONLY if _read_only_file(dest) else NOT_WRITABLE
                 refused = True
+            elif _transfer_failure(exc):
+                reason = NetworkReason(getattr(exc, "reason", "") or exc)
             else:
                 reason = str(getattr(exc, "reason", "") or exc)
             if verbose:
@@ -3071,6 +3076,34 @@ def _plural(count: int, word: str) -> str:
     return f"{count} {word}" if count == 1 else f"{count} {word}s"
 
 
+class NetworkReason(str):
+    """A failure the connection caused: cut, timed out, refused by a server
+    or a proxy. The summary names the network instead of the folder."""
+
+
+def _transfer_failure(exc: BaseException) -> bool:
+    """Whether a download error came from the connection, not the disk."""
+    # urlopen raises URLError for the name lookup, the connection and TLS.
+    # A cut read surfaces as a timeout (socket.timeout is no TimeoutError
+    # before 3.10), a reset, an SSL error or a size that does not add up.
+    ssl_error = getattr(sys.modules.get("ssl"), "SSLError", ())
+    if isinstance(exc, (urllib.error.URLError, http.client.HTTPException, ValueError,
+                        ConnectionError, TimeoutError, socket.timeout)):
+        return True
+    if ssl_error and isinstance(exc, ssl_error):
+        return True
+    return isinstance(exc, OSError) and exc.errno in (
+        errno.ECONNRESET, errno.ECONNREFUSED, errno.ECONNABORTED, errno.ETIMEDOUT,
+        errno.EHOSTUNREACH, errno.ENETUNREACH, errno.ENETDOWN, errno.EPIPE,
+    )
+
+
+NETWORK_FAILURE_ADVICE = (
+    "  The transfers were cut or refused on the way: check the connection, and "
+    "HTTPS_PROXY if this network needs a proxy.\n"
+    f"  More help: {TROUBLESHOOTING_PAGE}")
+
+
 def _report_outcome(
     paths: list[Path],
     downloaded: int,
@@ -3132,11 +3165,18 @@ def _report_outcome(
     if any(reason == READ_ONLY for _dest, reason in failures or []):
         advice.append("  Files marked read-only are in the way: clear that attribute "
                       "(or delete them), then run again.")
+    if any(isinstance(reason, NetworkReason) for _dest, reason in failures or []):
+        advice.append(NETWORK_FAILURE_ADVICE)
     paths = paths + [folder for folder in elsewhere if folder not in paths]
 
     if errors and not downloaded:
         print(f"\nNothing was installed. {_plural(errors, 'file')} failed.")
-        print(f"Location that was being written to: {_locations(paths)}")
+        if failures and all(isinstance(r, NetworkReason) for _d, r in failures):
+            # The folder was never the problem: naming it as the place being
+            # written to sent people looking at their disk.
+            print(f"Destination: {_locations(paths)}")
+        else:
+            print(f"Location that was being written to: {_locations(paths)}")
         for line in advice:
             print(line)
         print("Run the same command again once that is resolved. "
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index d7a4c4d5..72d44f87 100755
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ esac
 TEMP_INSTALLER=""
 TEMP_DIRECTORY=""
 DEFAULT_INSTALL_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Abdess/retrobios/main/install.py"
-DEFAULT_INSTALL_SHA256="2409cff28ad4eed1546161aa5abd6808fcd6a010bda7943eb1076f4ab0559c9f"
+DEFAULT_INSTALL_SHA256="caec72e5ebd146509e3b1fabc7d8d4c5c921567592d6d1581df6e5cc50f3e96f"
 MAX_INSTALLER_BYTES=2097152
 
 cleanup() {
diff --git a/tests/test_install.py b/tests/test_install.py
index 06b714f3..b6282f3a 100644
--- a/tests/test_install.py
+++ b/tests/test_install.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import threading
 import unittest
 from types import SimpleNamespace
 import unittest.mock
+import urllib.error
 from pathlib import Path
 
 REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
@@ -3747,5 +3748,57 @@ class TheEmulatorNamesHaveTheirOwnListing(unittest.TestCase, _LoopbackRun):
                          ["mednafen_psx"])
 
 
+class ANetworkFailureNamesTheNetwork(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Every transfer cut by the connection ended on "Location that was being
+    written to" and "once that is resolved", naming the folder and nothing
+    about the connection or the proxy."""
+
+    def _fail(self, error: BaseException) -> str:
+        def urlopen(*_args, **_kwargs):
+            raise error
+
+        entry = {"dest": "a.bin", "repo_path": "bios/a.bin", "size": 10,
+                 "sha256": "0" * 64}
+        with unittest.mock.patch.object(install.urllib.request, "urlopen", urlopen), \
+                unittest.mock.patch.object(install, "_retry_delay", return_value=0):
+            _dest, ok, reason = install._download_one(entry, Path(_tempdir(self)))
+        self.assertFalse(ok)
+        return reason
+
+    def test_cuts_and_refusals_are_network_failures(self):
+        import http.client
+        import socket
+
+        for error in (
+            urllib.error.URLError(socket.gaierror(-2, "Name or service not known")),
+            http.client.IncompleteRead(b"abc", 10),
+            ConnectionResetError(104, "Connection reset by peer"),
+            socket.timeout("timed out"),
+            urllib.error.HTTPError("u", 503, "Service Unavailable", None, None),
+        ):
+            with self.subTest(error=error):
+                self.assertIsInstance(self._fail(error), install.NetworkReason)
+
+    def test_a_full_disk_and_a_missing_file_are_not(self):
+        import errno
+
+        for error in (OSError(errno.ENOSPC, "No space left on device"),
+                      urllib.error.HTTPError("u", 404, "Not Found", None, None)):
+            with self.subTest(error=error):
+                self.assertNotIsInstance(self._fail(error), install.NetworkReason)
+
+    def test_the_summary_points_at_the_connection(self):
+        failures = [("a.bin", install.NetworkReason("timed out")),
+                    ("b.bin", install.NetworkReason("Connection reset by peer"))]
+        out = io.StringIO()
+        with contextlib.redirect_stdout(out), self.assertRaises(SystemExit) as raised:
+            install._report_outcome([Path("/bios")], 0, 0, 2, 0, False, failures=failures)
+        self.assertEqual(raised.exception.code, 2)
+        text = out.getvalue()
+        self.assertIn("HTTPS_PROXY", text)
+        self.assertIn("Destination: /bios", text)
+        self.assertNotIn("being written to", text)
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()