Re: [ntp:questions] .1 Microsecond Synchronization

2009-06-05 Thread David J Taylor
ScottyG wrote: [] What do you think you can achieve with let say 5,000-10,000 USD budget for each data center? Could we get 1 micro, 10 micro, 100 micro, 1 milli? One catch is the not all the data centers have access to roof space for us. One company claims that they can use CDMA as a source

Re: [ntp:questions] .1 Microsecond Synchronization

2009-06-05 Thread Harlan Stenn
The time on my cellphone is routinely more than 3 seconds off of GPS time. -- Harlan Stenn st...@ntp.org http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] .1 Microsecond Synchronization

2009-06-05 Thread David Woolley
ScottyG wrote: The company I am working for needs to be able to record timestamps in a trading system logs down to a .1 microsecond accuracy. One other detail. This system will need to handle leap seconds, something that normal operating systems handle badly.

Re: [ntp:questions] .1 Microsecond Synchronization

2009-06-05 Thread David Woolley
ScottyG wrote: What do you think you can achieve with let say 5,000-10,000 USD budget for each data center? Could we get 1 micro, 10 micro, 100 micro, 1 milli? I think your biggest cost will be consultancy with the OS supplier and hardware suppliers. You need internals knowledge that

Re: [ntp:questions] Setting the COM port for the NMEA driver

2009-06-05 Thread newsreader01
On 13 Mai, 04:58, Dave Hart daveh...@gmail.com wrote: On May 9, 3:24 pm, David J Taylor wrote: Folks, I made some tests with various settings for the NMEA driver and the results are here:  http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/NTP-on-Windows-serial-port.html#usb Congratulations on showing serial

Re: [ntp:questions] .1 Microsecond Synchronization

2009-06-05 Thread Unruh
Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net writes: Harlan Stenn wrote: The time on my cellphone is routinely more than 3 seconds off of GPS time. Is your cell phone CDMA? Other technologies, there are several, may not require the precise timing that CDMA does! It will be hard for them to get

Re: [ntp:questions] .1 Microsecond Synchronization

2009-06-05 Thread Rob
Unruh unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca wrote: Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net writes: Harlan Stenn wrote: The time on my cellphone is routinely more than 3 seconds off of GPS time. Is your cell phone CDMA? Other technologies, there are several, may not require the precise timing that

Re: [ntp:questions] .1 Microsecond Synchronization

2009-06-05 Thread Greg Dowd
In CDMA, the time that you see displayed on your phone is a data service, not necessarily related to the GPS timebase directly pulled from the TDM layer. -Original Message- From: questions-bounces+gdowd=symmetricom@lists.ntp.org

Re: [ntp:questions] .1 Microsecond Synchronization

2009-06-05 Thread Unruh
Rob nom...@example.com writes: Unruh unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca wrote: Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net writes: Harlan Stenn wrote: The time on my cellphone is routinely more than 3 seconds off of GPS time. Is your cell phone CDMA? Other technologies, there are several, may not

Re: [ntp:questions] .1 Microsecond Synchronization

2009-06-05 Thread Rob
Unruh unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca wrote: Rob nom...@example.com writes: Unruh unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca wrote: Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net writes: Harlan Stenn wrote: The time on my cellphone is routinely more than 3 seconds off of GPS time. Is your cell phone CDMA? Other

Re: [ntp:questions] .1 Microsecond Synchronization

2009-06-05 Thread Terje Mathisen
Rob wrote: Unruh unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca wrote: No it requires the network to send the time when requested. Eg, Rogers in Canada (GSM) does deliver the time but I have no idea what its accuracy is. How dumb... something like time-of-day should be broadcast just like cell broadcast and

Re: [ntp:questions] .1 Microsecond Synchronization

2009-06-05 Thread Rick Jones
No it requires the network to send the time when requested. Eg, Rogers in Canada (GSM) does deliver the time but I have no idea what its accuracy is. How dumb... something like time-of-day should be broadcast just like cell broadcast and everyone would be able to receive it without any

Re: [ntp:questions] .1 Microsecond Synchronization

2009-06-05 Thread Scott Haneda
On Jun 5, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Rick Jones rick.jon...@hp.com wrote: No it requires the network to send the time when requested. Eg, Rogers in Canada (GSM) does deliver the time but I have no idea what its accuracy is. How dumb... something like time-of-day should be broadcast just like cell

[ntp:questions] Computing RTC drift

2009-06-05 Thread Kalle Pokki
Hello, We have a system in which we normally synchronize computers to GPS time through a couple of receivers. There may also be long time periods when the GPS is not available and the system gets isolated. There is no internet connection to get the time from. When the system is up and running, it

[ntp:questions] Query regarding NTP client - server functionality

2009-06-05 Thread lakshmiprasanna.manyam
Hi, We are using NTP on Vxworks. When we configure 3 NTP servers on a client, the client always tends to synchronize with the server that was configured first, irrespective of the stratum number. Is this the expected behavior? Also, there is a random increase in the minpoll of the

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP as HA-cluster service

2009-06-05 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
David Woolley wrote: James wrote: I have NTP setup as a heartbeat service in a two-node cluster. If I was to offer this service to the public pool, would there be an issue with hosts using it when the service failed over to the other node? I NTP should not be failed over. It

Re: [ntp:questions] .1 Microsecond Synchronization

2009-06-05 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Unruh wrote: Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net writes: Unruh wrote: Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net writes: Harlan Stenn wrote: The time on my cellphone is routinely more than 3 seconds off of GPS time. Is your cell phone CDMA? Other technologies, there are several,

Re: [ntp:questions] .1 Microsecond Synchronization

2009-06-05 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: I don't travel excessively! I live in NJ and travel to/through PA, DE, MD, NY, CT, MA. The parts of these states I have been to/through all seem to have adequate cell phone coverage although I'm sure that there must be a few places without it; I haven't found