Any chance these PCs are using a timesource (in the system somewhere) that isn't constant in the face of power management events?
The other pink tiger (vs elephant) in your house could/would be the wifi - at least in terms of being a "stable" network type. Some of the bufferbloat <http://www.bufferbloat.net/> folks have little nice to say about wireless. rick jones http://www.netperf.org/ -- oxymoron n, Hummer H2 with California Save Our Coasts and Oceans plates these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... :) feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH... _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions