"The iPad ' ' could not be restored. An unknown error has occurred (3194)."

I work in quality assurance within my company, and we have a company iPad to perform testing on. This week, while trying to update to iOS 5, that error message would pop up. It suggests to update iTunes and make sure to be logged in as an administrator, which I am. I have done all that Apple has suggested, but still no luck.
Anyone have any other suggestions?

So:
I turned off firewall and magic happened! All is well with my iOS 5

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