Richard B. Gilbert writes: > Country pools were a good start and probably adequate for small > countries. Countries the size of the U.S. or the U.S.S.R. can't use a > country wide pool and have much hope of getting a nearby server. For the > U.S. I'd want a "New England pool", a "middle Atlantic pool" (New Jersey, > Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virgina), a Southern Atlantic Pool, > etc. This assumes that "net space" maps well to geographical space which > may not always be a good assumption.
My best servers are often on the coasts. I'm in Wisconsin. In any case country pools are quite adequate for 99% of users for whom anything better than +-0.5 seconds is good enough. > If a request for a pool server could specify the requester's latitude and > longitude perhaps that information could be used to assign a nearby > server? Seems like an unnecessary complication. Anyone who needs that sort of performance should be willing and able to select servers by hand. -- John Hasler j...@dhh.gt.org Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions