[ntp:questions] Windows and Wi-Fi - starts well, frequency steps?

2011-12-24 Thread David J Taylor
Folks, I've recently been testing NTP 4.2.7p241 on a variety of Windows systems with almost uniformly excellent results. For me, it's the best version of NTP to date - thanks Dave Hart! However, it has now revealed a couple of issues which may be fundamental to NTP, or may be artefacts of

Re: [ntp:questions] Accuracy of NTP - Advice Needed

2011-12-24 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: An upcoming experiment at Fermilab will observe neutrinos at both ends (the far end will be in Minnesota). unruh writes: Well, no. At best the electrons or muons at one end. At best the electrical pulse produced by a photomultiplier when struck by a photon generated when a muon or

Re: [ntp:questions] Windows and Wi-Fi - starts well, frequency steps?

2011-12-24 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2011-12-24, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I suppose the answer to how the spikes arise could be simply that's how Wi-Fi is, with transmission uncertainties and the possibility of interference. I had expected a greater variation to the offset with Wi-Fi, but not the

Re: [ntp:questions] Windows and Wi-Fi - starts well, frequency steps?

2011-12-24 Thread David J Taylor
On 2011-12-24, David J Taylor wrote: I suppose the answer to how the spikes arise could be simply that's how Wi-Fi is, with transmission uncertainties and the possibility of interference. I had expected a greater variation to the offset with Wi-Fi, but not the spikes. Perhaps NTP is sensitive

Re: [ntp:questions] Windows and Wi-Fi - starts well, frequency steps?

2011-12-24 Thread unruh
On 2011-12-24, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: Folks, I've recently been testing NTP 4.2.7p241 on a variety of Windows systems with almost uniformly excellent results. For me, it's the best version of NTP to date - thanks Dave Hart! However, it has now revealed

Re: [ntp:questions] Accuracy of NTP - Advice Needed

2011-12-24 Thread unruh
On 2011-12-24, John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: I wrote: An upcoming experiment at Fermilab will observe neutrinos at both ends (the far end will be in Minnesota). unruh writes: Well, no. At best the electrons or muons at one end. At best the electrical pulse produced by a

Re: [ntp:questions] Accuracy of NTP - Advice Needed

2011-12-24 Thread John Hasler
unruh writes: They require ns accuracy in the timing and m accuracy in the distance. And the timing is not simply gps ( although they could have gotten that wrong) but then that timing has to be brought down into the mine a km or so below ground and horizontally and that also has to be

Re: [ntp:questions] Accuracy of NTP - Advice Needed

2011-12-24 Thread jimp
John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: unruh writes: They require ns accuracy in the timing and m accuracy in the distance. And the timing is not simply gps ( although they could have gotten that wrong) but then that timing has to be brought down into the mine a km or so below ground and

Re: [ntp:questions] Accuracy of NTP - Advice Needed

2011-12-24 Thread unruh
On 2011-12-24, j...@specsol.spam.sux.com j...@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: unruh writes: They require ns accuracy in the timing and m accuracy in the distance. And the timing is not simply gps ( although they could have gotten that wrong) but then that

Re: [ntp:questions] Accuracy of NTP - Advice Needed

2011-12-24 Thread unruh
On 2011-12-24, John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: unruh writes: They require ns accuracy in the timing and m accuracy in the distance. And the timing is not simply gps ( although they could have gotten that wrong) but then that timing has to be brought down into the mine a km or so below

Re: [ntp:questions] Accuracy of NTP - Advice Needed

2011-12-24 Thread jimp
unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: On 2011-12-24, j...@specsol.spam.sux.com j...@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: unruh writes: They require ns accuracy in the timing and m accuracy in the distance. And the timing is not simply gps ( although they could have

Re: [ntp:questions] Accuracy of NTP - Advice Needed

2011-12-24 Thread John Hasler
unruh writes: Surveying is done by GPS, as is timing so mountain ranges do not really matter. The OPERA team had to survey a traverse through the Gran Sasso highway tunnel to get to suitable benchmarks. You're right though: they did not survey the entire distance. -- John Hasler

Re: [ntp:questions] Accuracy of NTP - Advice Needed

2011-12-24 Thread John Hasler
Jim Pennino writes: The issue is that most people don't seem to be able to understand how to get an accurate position of a location that is vertically under a km or so of dirt, yet horizontally feet from wide open sky and GPS signals. The open sky nearest the OPERA detector is straight up

Re: [ntp:questions] Accuracy of NTP - Advice Needed

2011-12-24 Thread jimp
John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: Jim Pennino writes: The issue is that most people don't seem to be able to understand how to get an accurate position of a location that is vertically under a km or so of dirt, yet horizontally feet from wide open sky and GPS signals. The open sky

Re: [ntp:questions] Accuracy of NTP - Advice Needed

2011-12-24 Thread John Hasler
The open sky nearest the OPERA detector is straight up through 1400m of rock. Jim Pennino writes: And the easiest open sky to get to is horizontally down the tunnel to the entrance which is next to a freeway. Yes, the entrance is next to a freeway. The entrance to the LNGS facility where

Re: [ntp:questions] Windows and Wi-Fi - starts well, frequency steps?

2011-12-24 Thread Dave Hart
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 18:18, unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: On 2011-12-24, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: - one Netbook PC worked very well on a LAN connection (about 1 ms steady jitter).  However, when moving to a Wi-Fi connection after a power-down reboot, the

Re: [ntp:questions] Accuracy of NTP - Advice Needed

2011-12-24 Thread jimp
John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: The open sky nearest the OPERA detector is straight up through 1400m of rock. Jim Pennino writes: And the easiest open sky to get to is horizontally down the tunnel to the entrance which is next to a freeway. Yes, the entrance is next to a freeway.

Re: [ntp:questions] Accuracy of NTP - Advice Needed

2011-12-24 Thread jimp
unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: On 2011-12-24, j...@specsol.spam.sux.com j...@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: On 2011-12-24, j...@specsol.spam.sux.com j...@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: unruh writes: They require ns accuracy in the

Re: [ntp:questions] Accuracy of NTP - Advice Needed

2011-12-24 Thread unruh
On 2011-12-25, j...@specsol.spam.sux.com j...@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: The open sky nearest the OPERA detector is straight up through 1400m of rock. Jim Pennino writes: And the easiest open sky to get to is horizontally down the tunnel to the

Re: [ntp:questions] Accuracy of NTP - Advice Needed

2011-12-24 Thread jimp
unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: On 2011-12-25, j...@specsol.spam.sux.com j...@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: The open sky nearest the OPERA detector is straight up through 1400m of rock. Jim Pennino writes: And the easiest open sky to get to is

[ntp:questions] [ntp:announce] NTP 4.2.6p5 Released

2011-12-24 Thread NTP Public Services Project
Redwood City, CA - 2011/12/24 - The NTP Public Services Project (http://support.ntp.org/) is pleased to announce that NTP 4.2.6p5, a Point Release of the NTP Reference Implementation from the NTP Project, is now available at http://www.ntp.org/downloads.html and http://support.ntp.org/download.

Re: [ntp:questions] Windows and Wi-Fi - starts well, frequency steps?

2011-12-24 Thread David J Taylor
unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote in message news:KHoJq.2272$zj4.1...@newsfe03.iad... [] Question: would you expect the reported jitter to increase over the first 30 minutes or so? Could be somone switched on a vacuum cleaner for example. No. I've seen something like this behaviour before,

Re: [ntp:questions] Windows and Wi-Fi - starts well, frequency steps?

2011-12-24 Thread David J Taylor
Dave Hart wrote in message news:CAMbSiYD0cY27Ft9cadBzV4ravKcz- [] Retransmission is the killer issue for NTP performance over 802.11. For practical interop with software developed on wired networks, WiFi equipment detects packet loss and triggers retransmission invisibly to higher layers. I