ionic start project connection error (ERRCONNREFUSED) - node.js

Question

I have this error when I try to start a new ionic project.
Note:I may have mucked around with proxies at work at some point (behind a proxy), and now it is showing this error at home (direct connection). I'm not sure if this is an issue with proxies for sure though.
The Error:
Creating Ionic app in folder C:\Users\sam\hiya based on tabs project
Downloading: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-app-base/archive/master.zip
Error Initializing app: Error: tunneling socket could not be established, cause=connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:80
Error: tunneling socket could not be established, cause=connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:80
at ClientRequest.onError (C:\Users\sam\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ionic\node_modules\request\node_modules\tunnel-agent\index.js:176:17)
at ClientRequest.g (events.js:260:16)
at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:169:7)
at Socket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:267:9)
at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
at Socket.emit (events.js:169:7)
at emitErrorNT (net.js:1253:8)
at nextTickCallbackWith2Args (node.js:442:9)
at process._tickCallback (node.js:356:17)
tunneling socket could not be established, cause=connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:80 (CLI v1.7.16)
Your system information:
Cordova CLI: 6.3.0
Ionic CLI Version: 1.7.16
Ionic App Lib Version: 0.7.3
OS:
Node Version: v4.4.5
Your help would be greatly appreciated. Sam

Answer 1

Maybe you can change your default ionicServeAddress on ionic.config file.
On Mac this file is at ~/.ionic. On a PC it can be found at C:/users/username/.ionic. Inside you'll see something like
"ionicServeAddress": "localhost"
Perhaps changing to your proxies ip or localhost might help.