The peer is unreachable: what does this mean?

butterfly72

Hi,

I'm trying to synce the clock on my PC with internet time and keep getting an error message with this 'the peer is unreachable'.

Any ideas?
thanks

esuhl

The pool of servers I use is at uk.pool.ntp.org - another one to try if necessary.

butterfly72

espresso wrote: »

What server are you trying to connect to?

time.windows.com works for me

Yes this one! Its not working for me.

esuhl, that doesn't come up as an option.

kwikbreaks

butterfly72 wrote: »

that doesn't come up as an option.

You can just type it in and press the update button (assuming windows clock).

esuhl

As kwikbreaks says, you can use any ntp server or pool you want - you just have to specify it in the appropriate settings for your OS.

I think one of my Windows PCs was originally set up to use time.windows.com. I don't know if the server was busy, slow, or there was some other problem, but changing it to uk.pool.ntp.org seemed to improve the chances of the ntp server being contacted successfully.