John Hasler <j...@dhh.gt.org> writes: >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. >-- Or buy themselves a GPS time source. >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