Of course it “can be” but they work for many users and when you cannot ping a fresh install, it’s usually a networking problem of some sort in the first place.
But we (those you address) don’t live in your environment, so how are we supposed to know with that little information you are giving?
You did not mention what image you tried to use, on what hardware, and you didn’t check the debug guide which is even linked to on the image download page.
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