diff --git a/tests/models/base.py b/tests/models/base.py
index 073b2ca2d629d..dce2ef624e97a 100644
--- a/tests/models/base.py
+++ b/tests/models/base.py
@@ -16,9 +16,15 @@
     # TODO: this should be discussed and moved out of this package
     raise ImportError('Missing test-tube package.')
 
-from pytorch_lightning.core.decorators import data_loader
 from pytorch_lightning.core.lightning import LightningModule
 
+# TODO: remove after getting own MNIST
+# TEMPORAL FIX, https://github.com/pytorch/vision/issues/1938
+import urllib.request
+opener = urllib.request.build_opener()
+opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0')]
+urllib.request.install_opener(opener)
+
 
 class TestingMNIST(MNIST):
 
@@ -54,8 +60,8 @@ def configure_optimizers(self):
         return torch.optim.Adam(self.parameters(), lr=0.02)
 
     def train_dataloader(self):
-        return DataLoader(MNIST(os.getcwd(), train=True, download=True,
-                                transform=transforms.ToTensor()), batch_size=32)
+        return DataLoader(TestingMNIST(os.getcwd(), train=True, download=True,
+                                       transform=transforms.ToTensor()), batch_size=32)
 
 
 class TestModelBase(LightningModule):