title: Ethereum Ropsten chain not syncing in Parity Wallet
body: <p>I am struggling with syncing my Ropsten chain in Parity wallet. I wanted to test deploying a contract, but the faucet issued the eth on a block I'm not on yet(faucet block: 1714049, my block: 1,705,822).</p>
  
  <p>On Windows 10, I am running Parity using</p>
  
  <pre><code>./parity.exe --warp --chain ropsten --ntp-server time.windows.com:123 --mode active --tracing off --pruning fast --db-compaction hdd --cache-size 4096 &gt;&gt; /cygdrive/c/paritylogtest.txt &amp;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Removing the ntp-server option makes no difference. I had been getting a NTP error, but that is no longer showing after using instructions here <a href="https://www.pretentiousname.com/timesync/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.pretentiousname.com/timesync/</a>
  On the status page, it says Chain and Time synchronized. Sometimes for a second it will flash that Chain is not synchronized.</p>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong? Can I set my peers to match <a href="https://ropsten.etherscan.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://ropsten.etherscan.io</a>?
   If I switch to Linux, how will i know it's working before downloading the whole thing?</p>