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MJPatterson
This is a follow up to the previous thread with the same title, now locked. I had replied to @lukpac that my workaround was to use a VPN to tunnel past my ISP firewall and link to the time servers.
Subsequent experiments have shown that the VPN tunneling was bypassing my router's firewall, not the ISP firewall. I had Google Mesh and it was blocking the time server port, UPD123. I got a Synology router that was easier to configure and opened that port for internet time sync and now it works fine.
So, if you are getting "An error occurred while Windows was synchronizing with [server name]. This operation returned because the timeout period expired." try opening UDP port 123 on your router firewall.
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Subsequent experiments have shown that the VPN tunneling was bypassing my router's firewall, not the ISP firewall. I had Google Mesh and it was blocking the time server port, UPD123. I got a Synology router that was easier to configure and opened that port for internet time sync and now it works fine.
So, if you are getting "An error occurred while Windows was synchronizing with [server name]. This operation returned because the timeout period expired." try opening UDP port 123 on your router firewall.
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