Creating new env fails

Following Tutorial prompts, this is the text from the Anaconda PowerShell Prompt - not sure where to look for the solution ..

…> conda create --name example

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(base) PS C:\Users\E40094200> conda --version
conda 24.9.2
(base) PS C:\Users\E40094200> conda env list

conda environments:

base * C:\RTN\Anaconda

(base) PS C:\Users\E40094200> conda create --name example
Channels:

  • defaults
    Platform: win-64
    Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): | Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by ‘ConnectTimeoutError(<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x00000230E7D9D250>, ‘Connection to repo.anaconda.com timed out. (connect timeout=9.15)’)’: /pkgs/msys2/noarch/repodata.json.zst

Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by ‘ConnectTimeoutError(<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x00000230E7D9C980>, ‘Connection to repo.anaconda.com timed out. (connect timeout=9.15)’)’: /pkgs/r/noarch/repodata.json.zst