>As others obeserved, much of the traffic in TX seems to prefer to go >through Dallas even if across the street. Yet, it would probably beat >crossing the Rockies in terms of the final delay. Take >ntppub.tamu.edu, although also 15 hops away, the delay is only half as >that of the server in SoCal.
The delay isn't a problem, at least if it's symmetrical. (A lot of paths are not symmetrical.) The problem is jitter - differences in delay from one sample to the next. Usually that comes from queueing delays on busy links. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
