Unruh wrote: > 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. >
I've done both! _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions