ITunes can't connect to the iPad update server

THIS IS DOING MY HEAD IN.
We recently purchased a Mac Mini to help us manage our iPads. I intend to use Apple Configurator to supervise our 26 iPads but I'm having no luck! Configurator just keeps trying to put iOS 6.1.3 on. I have downloaded the 7.0.4 ipsw and stuck that in the folder, deleted the 6.1.3 ipsw but that didn't work. Then I read somewhere that Configurator uses the latest ipsw that iTunes has downloaded. "Ok" I thought, went into iTunes, plugged an iPad in and checked for an update "The iPad software update server could not be contacted. Make sure your network settings are correct and your network connection is active, or try again later" FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU.
We are on a school network with proxy settings in place. Now, that shouldn't causing an issue as our Windows machines can download updates through iTunes.
I then did some more digging and found a solution that told me to add something to the line that had gs.apple.com in it. Well, our hosts file has no such thing.
(Little more information. The soloution was to: go to finder > press go from the top menu > type in '/private' and hit enter > copy the hosts file to the desktop > add a hashtag and a space before the line that says 127.0.0.1 gs.apple.com.) That line does not exist in our hosts file. I have 127.0.0.1 localhost, and that's it.
Any help would be more than appreciated. Thanks!

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