When setting up your Autodesk Desktop Subscription Software for the first time, you may get the following error:  Establish an Internet connection to continue.

 

There are 4 articles that you can use to solve this problem:

a. Establish an Internet Connection Error

Windows: Desktop Subscription Licensing Error: “Establish an Internet connection to continue” or Autodesk Licensing hotfix.
Mac: Establish-an-Internet-Connection-to-continue-MAC

b. You can also use Fiddler to troubleshoot the connection error.

c. If you are using enterprise antivirus [McAfee] software, please check out How to set up McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator to allow Autodesk Products to work with Desktop Subscription.

d. Please apply this Hotfix before launching your Autodesk [2014/2015] product. Also, review this article if you get File Access Denied when applying this patch.

Using one or more of these solutions should allow your software to start correctly and get you on your way.

If you have any questions, please comment to this post or email me at [email protected]