Re: [ntp:questions] NMEA ref.clock better than my ISP's timeserver?

2009-06-12 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: [] > I use cat 5e cable since it is cheap, available and is supposed to be > good for better than about 100MMHz > (10nsec) signals. I would not use usb cable or any old wire, because > of > the problems of spread of the pulse from the gps. Also I would > terminate > it properly as well

Re: [ntp:questions] NMEA ref.clock better than my ISP's timeserver?

2009-06-12 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: [] > The nmea is virtually useless for accurate timing. The main thing that > the unit gives you is the PPS. You have to makes sure you do not > degrade it. The GPS 18x LVC only claims an accuracy of one microsecond for PPS in the first place. The RS-232 receivers may well have some

Re: [ntp:questions] NMEA ref.clock better than my ISP's timeserver?

2009-06-12 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: [] > Now you could get far better response by using the temperature of the > computer to also correct for rate responses. I do agree that if temperature could be included NTP could work even better. David ___ questions mailing list quest

Re: [ntp:questions] NMEA ref.clock better than my ISP's timeserver?

2009-06-11 Thread David J Taylor
Rick Jones wrote: > David J Taylor > wrote: >> One suggestion might be wireless > > Isn't that just asking for jitter? > > rick jones Have you tried it? How much extra jitter do you see? It would be interesting to see some real data. If the choice were between

Re: [ntp:questions] NMEA ref.clock better than my ISP's timeserver?

2009-06-11 Thread David J Taylor
David Lord wrote: [] > I only have a pair of servers as peer and that is maxpoll 8 and > both sat at 256 sec. Offsets are 203us and 593us. I see more like 1-3ms for the Internet servers (compared to the GPS), with delays in the order of 30ms. This is with Windows, though, not a UNIX system. >

Re: [ntp:questions] NMEA ref.clock better than my ISP's timeserver?

2009-06-11 Thread David J Taylor
David Lord wrote: [] > I'll scope pps down utp but doubt the pps will keep its rising > edge. I'm having a box with indicator led and 5V regulator at end > of the stock Garmin cable and coax + utp from that box downstairs. > One pair will have +9V/0V to the regulator. It's a long while > since I ra

Re: [ntp:questions] NMEA ref.clock better than my ISP's timeserver?

2009-06-11 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley wrote: [] > When used with proper balanced drivers and receivers, twisted pair is > often better than coax. > > For any type of cable, group delay characteristics may be more > important than characteristic impedance match. Whilst I agree with both points, for carrying what are TTL-l

Re: [ntp:questions] NMEA ref.clock better than my ISP's timeserver?

2009-06-11 Thread David J Taylor
David Lord wrote: > I'm intending buffering the pps to give 75r output to coax with > another converter back to ttl at the server. The NMEA should manage > the distance over twisted pair at 4800 baud. [] > I'd rather have the option for two way in case the Garmin needs to be > set to a different mo

Re: [ntp:questions] NMEA ref.clock better than my ISP's timeserver?

2009-06-11 Thread David J Taylor
David Lord wrote: [] > Late last night I got round to connecting the Garmin GPS18x-LVC and > just after midnight it stepped from around 60s to 0.5ms and 8 hours > later is between -74us and +62us. The module is in south facing > upstairs window in same location I failed to get anything useful > fro

Re: [ntp:questions] NMEA ref.clock better than my ISP's timeserver?

2009-06-11 Thread David J Taylor
David J Taylor wrote: [] > I might be inclined to go for a screened > cable if you need a 30m run, but thin 3-core mains cable /might/ > suffice. I'm not sure whether the NMEA driver attempts to send anything /to/ the GPS device. If not, three lines might to (ground, TX

[ntp:questions] ntpd not responding to IPv6 queries?

2009-06-09 Thread David J Taylor
I have ntpd 4.2.4p6 running on a Windows 7 RC machine. >From the command prompt, when I enter: ping , ping works correctly, but seems to be using an IPv6 address. I guess this must be an auto-assigned address, as I have no IPv6 network as such. If I enter: ntpq -c rv , I get the error messag

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.5p181 supports PPSAPI provider DLLs on Windows

2009-06-07 Thread David J Taylor
Dave Hart wrote: [] > NTP 4.2.5p181 binaries for Windows are at: > > http://davehart.net/ntp/win/x86/ > http://davehart.net/ntp/win/x86/ntp-4.2.5p181-win-x86-bin.zip > http://davehart.net/ntp/win/x86/ntp-4.2.5p181-win-x86-debug-bin.zip > > Cheers, > Dave Hart The "release" version is installed and

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

2009-06-05 Thread David J Taylor
newsreade...@web.de wrote: [] > Hi Dave, hi community, > > I have a setup where the serial data is - for technical reasons - > routed over a LAN via 16 port MOXA port servers. While in general I > found that ntp gets along well with the virtual ports, 4.2.5p180 seems > to fail to connect once the c

Re: [ntp:questions] .1 Microsecond Synchronization

2009-06-04 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 s

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.5p180 adds IPv6 support on Windows

2009-06-01 Thread David J Taylor
Maarten Wiltink wrote: [] > As it happens, I recently had cause to install a clean Windows > somewhere and downloaded what turns out to be vegas-v2. As of five > minutes ago, > a new NTP is gathering loopstats. > > Thanks! > > Groetjes, > Maarten Wiltink That's good news, Maarten. So, one questio

Re: [ntp:questions] Dave Hart Windows PPS patch set and Atom driver

2009-05-31 Thread David J Taylor
hven...@astound.net wrote: > Just a quick follow up. Dave has supplied me with some updated code > and this seems to be working OK on my machine now. It appears that > most of the issue I was seeing was corrected when I turned serial port > buffering off. At this point I am using the Atom (PPS)

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.5p180 adds IPv6 support on Windows

2009-05-31 Thread David J Taylor
Maarten Wiltink wrote: [] > A Windows 2000 without IPv6 says 'Ordinal not found : The ordinal 3852 > could not be located in the dynamic link library LIBEAY32.dll.' > > Copying the DLL into the directory didn't help, either. > > Groetjes, > Maarten Wiltink What libeay32.dll do you have? Mine is d

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.5p180 adds IPv6 support on Windows

2009-05-31 Thread David J Taylor
Maarten Wiltink wrote: []> It came with NTP-4.2.0 Windows binaries dated 2003-10-17. The DLL is > dated 2003-06-04, 827 392 bytes, no version information. > > Groetjes, > Maarten Wiltink The newer file is here if you need it: http://www.satsignal.eu/libeay32.zip Cheers, David ___

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.5p180 adds IPv6 support on Windows

2009-05-31 Thread David J Taylor
Maarten Wiltink wrote: > "David J Taylor" > wrote > in message news:qzaul.35766$oo7.25...@text.news.virginmedia.com... >> Maarten Wiltink wrote: > >>> A Windows 2000 without IPv6 says 'Ordinal not found : The ordinal >>> 3852 could not

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.5p180 adds IPv6 support on Windows

2009-05-30 Thread David J Taylor
Dave Hart wrote: > You can find binaries at: > > http://davehart.net/ntp/win/x86/ntp-4.2.5p180-win-x86-bin.zip > http://davehart.net/ntp/win/x86/ntp-4.2.5p180-win-x86-debug-bin.zip > > Testing on the earliest supported versions of Windows has been light. > My binaries unfortunately are unable to lo

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS jamming - Wales: 7-11 & 14-18 September 2009

2009-05-29 Thread David J Taylor
David J Taylor wrote: > For your information: > > ___ > The MoD has informed Ofcom of the following GPS jamming exercise: > > Dates: 7-11 September and 14-18 September 2009. > > Times: limited periods between 09:00 an

[ntp:questions] GPS jamming - Wales: 7-11 & 8-18 September 2009

2009-05-29 Thread David J Taylor
For your information: ___ The MoD has informed Ofcom of the following GPS jamming exercise: Dates: 7-11 September and 14-18 September 2009. Times: limited periods between 09:00 and 17:00 hrs Location: Within 5km of N52° 00.881' and W003° 3

Re: [ntp:questions] NMEA ref.clock better than my ISP's timeserver?

2009-05-28 Thread David J Taylor
David Lord wrote: [] > I eventually ordered from gpsw.co.uk, UKP 71.02 inclusive. I'd > searched their site prior to trying the US ones and not been able to > locate the GPS 18x-LVC and only went back after it being confirmed > here they stocked the product. I also ordered from GPS warehouse and

Re: [ntp:questions] NMEA ref.clock better than my ISP's timeserver?

2009-05-28 Thread David J Taylor
piste...@start.no wrote: [] > When calculating NOK to USD, I end up with $152,24. That's actually > more than double the $63 price you have seen in US!! If I found a US > place selling it for $63 I suppose it should get quite a lot cheaper > even when adding shipping and tax. > > Geir .. except th

Re: [ntp:questions] NMEA ref.clock better than my ISP's timeserver?

2009-05-27 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: > piste...@start.no writes: [] >> Actually the Garmin 18x LVC is quite expensive here in Norway? Seems >> like it's quite a lot cheaper abroad, but with tax and postage I >> don't think it's any cheaper to order one unit from US or >> somewhere... > > How much is "quite expensive" It s

Re: [ntp:questions] NMEA ref.clock better than my ISP's timeserver?

2009-05-27 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: [] > Probably better than 10 microseconds from the PPS if you had a decent > operating system (eg BSD or Linux) On windows, maybe 1 msec > accuracy.\. More like better than 200 microseconds on a good Windows 2000 or XP system, even in a non-temperature-controlled environment, when ru

Re: [ntp:questions] NMEA ref.clock better than my ISP's timeserver?

2009-05-27 Thread David J Taylor
piste...@start.no wrote: > After first trying the Haicom HI-204III claiming to have PPS in the > manual without really having it, I bought a Garmin 18x LVC and > connected it to the onboard COM-port (COM1) on my Asus M3N78 PRO > mainboard. The Haicom is residing on a USB serial adapter (COM6) to >

[ntp:questions] NTP Loopstats plotting program updated

2009-05-26 Thread David J Taylor
Folks, I've updated my NTP Loopstats plotting program for Windows in a number of ways, including the overlay of offset and relative frequency error for each 24-hour period. Please see: http://www.satsignal.eu/software/net.htm#NTPplotter It allows a clearer view of daily temperature or other

Re: [ntp:questions] strange time behaviour

2009-05-25 Thread David J Taylor
vhfme...@t-online.de wrote: > Hello, > > I have an embedded application running under Linux 2.6.22 #1 PREEMPT > with 1000 ticks per second (PC architecture, AMD Geode Processor). > Since precise timing is needed, the devices are synchronized to a time > server via ntpd 4.2.2p4. > > After running 48

Re: [ntp:questions] Loopstats updated less frequently than expected

2009-05-23 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: [] > If you mean you have a refclock attached, they have round trip time of > 0. Thus there is never a minimum and all get used. Ntp's algorithm in > short is: Save the last 8 polls. Check if the current poll has a > larger > roundtrip time than any of those 8. If it does, do not use i

Re: [ntp:questions] Loopstats updated less frequently than expected

2009-05-23 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: [] >> As I have maxpoll set to 6, I would have expected entries no more >> than 64s apart. What am I failing to understand here? The poll >> values reported in ntpq -p are 64, 64 and 1024 - as expected. > > You are forgetting that ntp throws away 7/8 of the stuff it collects. > (This

[ntp:questions] Loopstats updated less frequently than expected

2009-05-23 Thread David J Taylor
Folks, I have the following entries in ntpd.conf: server 192.168.0.2 iburst maxpoll 6 server 192.168.0.7 maxpoll 6 server 0.uk.pool.ntp.org minpoll 10 .. and the following as the most recent loopstats: 54974 37901.029 -0.000209922 13.840 0.000108471 0.007233 6 54974 38229.033 0.000346890 13.8

Re: [ntp:questions] New Version of NTP Installer for Windows from Meinberg

2009-05-22 Thread David J Taylor
Dave Hart wrote: > David J Taylor: >> Does this new release include the improved interpolation developed >> by Dave Hart, and the Windows Vista/7 optimisations? > > No, those are only in 4.2.5p162 and later. See > http://bugs.ntp.org/216 Very soon a release candidate

Re: [ntp:questions] New Version of NTP Installer for Windows from Meinberg

2009-05-22 Thread David J Taylor
Heiko Gerstung wrote: > Hi Clock Addictives, > > following the security update of NTP we built a new version of our NTP > Installer for Windows which now installs NTP 4.2.4p7 (ntpd and tools) > as well as the full NTP Documentation. The installer now also > includes the current version of the OpenS

Re: [ntp:questions] Query about NTP accuracy

2009-05-22 Thread David J Taylor
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: [] > I'm not sure that ANYTHING, other than a local atomic clock, is going > to get you microsecond accuracy. 10 milliseconds is probably > attainable for other than Windows clients. The Windows clock ticks > every 17 milliseconds and may be accurate to within a few hun

Re: [ntp:questions] Query about NTP accuracy

2009-05-22 Thread David J Taylor
Andy Yates wrote: > Does anybody have any figures that shows the effect on accuracy of an > NTP v3 client using a stratum 1 server rather than a stratum 2 or 3 > server? It's all in a GE LAN based scenario, commercial stratum 1 > servers connected to GPS and stratum 2 and 3 servers are typically >

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

2009-05-14 Thread David J Taylor
Dave Hart wrote: > On May 14, 7:27 am, "David J Taylor" wrote: >> It would indeed be interesting to see how well it performed, either >> with FreeBSD or with Windows. I don't know if a USB/GPS driver is >> available with the present version of NTP. > >

Re: [ntp:questions] best gps receiver for time synchronization

2009-05-14 Thread David J Taylor
John Hasler wrote: > David wries: >> .. but if something only needs millisecond timing, designing for >> nanosecond accuracy is gross over-engineering, and likely rather >> costly. > > There's no real cost: just a few bytes in a data structure. Better > to have it and never need it then to leave

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

2009-05-14 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley wrote: [] > The problem with USB latency is that it is unpredictable. The > uncertainty in the direct serial port latency is 1/16 th of the > signalling unit length (about 6 microseconds at 9600) plus the > uncertainty in the interrupt and process scheduling latencies. (If > the UAR

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

2009-05-14 Thread David J Taylor
Augustine wrote: > On May 9, 2:17 am, "David J Taylor" part.nor-this.co.uk.invalid> wrote: >> >> Background: I have a GPS 18 and USB >> serial converter, and I wanted to see how well that actually >> performs. > > Very interesting experiment. May I

Re: [ntp:questions] best gps receiver for time synchronization

2009-05-14 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: [] > Well, I call "good" to include the design. If a car is designed so > that > the wheels fall off every 100 miles, no matter how closely the car > meets > the design, it is a bad car. .. but if something only needs millisecond timing, designing for nanosecond accuracy is gross ove

Re: [ntp:questions] best gps receiver for time synchronization

2009-05-13 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: [] > Since the same machine can run Linux or BSD whose resolution is usec > or > nsec, yes, the hardware can do better. The question is how good is the > software in the kernel. If I do a timestamp on an event, how accurate > is > that timestamp? > Is it msec? Is it 15msec? The precis

Re: [ntp:questions] best gps receiver for time synchronization

2009-05-13 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: > >> >> - with operating system calls, the main clock can be read with a >> precision of 1 millisecond (although the ticks may be only 15 >> milliseconds). There are higher resolution counters which can also >&

Re: [ntp:questions] best gps receiver for time synchronization

2009-05-12 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: [] > OK, I keep forgetting. What accuracy can the clock be read on windows? > is there an interpolation routine in the kernel so the clock can be > read > to usec accuracy? > I would thin k you could set up and interrupt routine to read and > record > the clock time when the interrupt

Re: [ntp:questions] best gps receiver for time synchronization

2009-05-12 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: > "David J Taylor" [] >> On my system, I can detect no difference between the GPS 18 and the >> GSP 18x. I am looking at jitters in the order of 2.2 microseconds, >> and offsets in the range +170/-100 microseconds. > > How are you reading the PPS

Re: [ntp:questions] best gps receiver for time synchronization

2009-05-11 Thread David J Taylor
Hal Murray wrote: [] > If anybody has figured out how to get good timing out of the > SiRF units, please clue me in. On my system, I can detect no difference between the GPS 18 and the GSP 18x. I am looking at jitters in the order of 2.2 microseconds, and offsets in the range +170/-100 microsec

Re: [ntp:questions] How bad is USB?

2009-05-11 Thread David J Taylor
David Malone wrote: > "David J Taylor" > > writes: > >> I know it's off-topic, but how far apart in time does two singers, or >> choir, have to be before you notice? (No, I'm not suggesting a >> spoken ref clock ). > > If you have an small

Re: [ntp:questions] How bad is USB?

2009-05-11 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: > "David J Taylor" [] >> I know it's off-topic, but how far apart in time does two singers, or >> choir, have to be before you notice? (No, I'm not suggesting a >> spoken ref clock ). > > 10-100ms > (3-30 m) > iThat is why speake

Re: [ntp:questions] How bad is USB?

2009-05-10 Thread David J Taylor
Uwe Klein wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: >> Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >> [] >> >>> You can try it and see what happens! The results may be >>> sufficiently good for your purposes. You will almost certainly not >>> get microsecond ac

Re: [ntp:questions] How bad is USB?

2009-05-10 Thread David J Taylor
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: [] > You can try it and see what happens! The results may be sufficiently > good for your purposes. You will almost certainly not get microsecond > accuracy. If you are willing to settle for +/- 10 milliseconds you > can almost certainly get that. Richard, My first te

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance of serial-over-USB ref-clock

2009-05-10 Thread David J Taylor
David J Taylor wrote: > Folks, > > Thanks to your help, I got the serial-over-USB GPS NMEA ref-clock > working with Windows. It will be interesting to see whether the > performance is any different to a LAN connection to a ref-clock. See: > > http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/

Re: [ntp:questions] How bad is USB? (was: Re: Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.)

2009-05-09 Thread David J Taylor
Hal Murray wrote: [] > USB is polled by the host. That gives it a bad reputation. > > But that polling is done by hardware. The basic time scale is 1 ms. > If you don't get your low-latency stuff sorted out on a serial port > you can easily introduce delays longer than 1 ms. > > If you want micro

[ntp:questions] Performance of serial-over-USB ref-clock

2009-05-09 Thread David J Taylor
Folks, Thanks to your help, I got the serial-over-USB GPS NMEA ref-clock working with Windows. It will be interesting to see whether the performance is any different to a LAN connection to a ref-clock. See: http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/NTP-on-Windows-serial-port.html#usb over the next 24 ho

Re: [ntp:questions] How bad is USB?

2009-05-09 Thread David J Taylor
Hal Murray wrote: >> I'm in a third category (probably) - as long as my PCs "sound" to >> have the same time, I'm happy. Actually, I want UTC as well, but as >> I have a speaking clock working on two PCs it's "nice" when they >> both speak at the same time. I wonder how close that needs to be - >

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

2009-05-09 Thread David J Taylor
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 Maarten's guess about how to specify the COM port was correct (thanks), but setting a port above COM3 failed, so I have created bug repo

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

2009-05-09 Thread David J Taylor
Dave Hart wrote: >> Does NTP even allow COM4? > > I don't think so. The unit numbers are limited to 0-3, I believe, but > I don't have any concept of why. Windows never has a COM0:, so > arguably it was a poor choice to map unit number to com port number > without adding 1, but it's far too late

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

2009-05-09 Thread David J Taylor
Maarten Wiltink wrote: > "David J Taylor" > wrote > in message news:96anl.26389$oo7.7...@text.news.virginmedia.com... > >> Folks, >> >> I've looked through the documents, and I can't see how to set the COM >> port for the NMEA driver on

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

2009-05-09 Thread David J Taylor
Folks, I've looked through the documents, and I can't see how to set the COM port for the NMEA driver on Windows. Background: I have a GPS 18 and USB serial converter, and I wanted to see how well that actually performs. It supplies data on COM4, so I need to tell NTP that's where to look for

Re: [ntp:questions] 500ppm - is it too small?

2009-05-08 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: [] >> http://www.maxim-ic.com/appnotes.cfm/an_pk/3566 > > This seems to suggest crystals have quadratic temperature dependency. > My understanding is that normal cuts have cubic dependency. Of > course, 32kHz crystals are often cu

Re: [ntp:questions] 500ppm - is it too small?

2009-05-08 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley wrote: [] > A reasonable expectation of a cheap crystal is 50ppm static plus > <10ppm temperature dependent. When one gets >500ppm it suggests the > problem is rather worse than poor crystal tolerancing. I am inclined to agree. One reference I found was this: http://www.maxim-ic

Re: [ntp:questions] 500ppm - is it too small?

2009-05-07 Thread David J Taylor
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: [] > I'm not here to make people feel good! No comment! > I've checked the hardware available to me and none is worse than 50 > PPM. That's two PC's running Windows XP, three Sun Ultra 10 > Workstations running Solaris 8, 9, and 10, two DEC Alpha workstations > running V

Re: [ntp:questions] 500ppm - is it too small?

2009-05-07 Thread David J Taylor
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: [] > An error greater than 500 PPM suggests seriously broken hardware! There > might be some way to "kludge" the software to compensate for > this brokenness but I think it would be easier and cheaper to fix or > replace the broken hardware. I was trying to see what erro

[ntp:questions] 500ppm - is it too small?

2009-05-07 Thread David J Taylor
I've recent been suggesting the Windows port of NTP as a program suitable for an application where the timekeeping needed to be within a second or two. Yes, NTP is overkill, but it has the advantages of multiple servers, best server selection, adaptive poll rate, and memory of the clock drift

Re: [ntp:questions] Window XP - ntp / GMT not working

2009-05-07 Thread David J Taylor
David Lord wrote: [] > On Windows 98 here (GMT) London seems to be BST with an hour > adjustment for DST so turning off DST is always an hour off UTC. > I have timezone set as (GMT) Casablanca, Monrovia. :-) > > David That's interesting. On the Windows-32 systems, London = "GMT" = UTC, and havin

Re: [ntp:questions] Window XP - ntp / GMT not working

2009-05-07 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: >> settings. If you want UTC displayed, just choose a time-zone without >> any summer-time adjustment, for example: >> >> (GMT) Monrovia, Reykjavik >> > But make sure that you continually recheck its status. Tun

Re: [ntp:questions] Window XP - ntp / GMT not working

2009-05-06 Thread David J Taylor
randy wilson wrote: > Hi, > > This has to have been solved somewhere but apparently > my searchfu is not working well. > > I have some windows xp computers which we are syncing > to a time server via ntp. I can see the time server > has the correct UTC time on it and the the PCs are > syncing to th

[ntp:questions] Windows-7 - available for testing NTP

2009-05-04 Thread David J Taylor
Folks, I have Windows-7 RC installed on one of my PCs at the moment. It's currently running the VegasV2 version: http://www.satsignal.eu/mrtg/hydra_ntp.html http://www.satsignal.eu/mrtg/performance_hydra.php and doing about the same as a Vista PC running similar software, i.e. not very w

Re: [ntp:questions] Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.

2009-05-02 Thread David J Taylor
David Lord wrote: [] > I've ntp logs going back many years and for me chrony was better > suited to handling temperature changes but was originally used > because of intermittent dialup connection. Yes, having a history of expected variations due to temperature chnages, or perhaps even using the

Re: [ntp:questions] Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.

2009-05-02 Thread David J Taylor
David Lord wrote: [] > cheers > > Both those were listed on garmin site as uk suppliers but the RS price > that came up was almost 170 quid and I couldn't locate the GPS-18x LVC > on the gpsw site. > > I'll check both again anyway in case my eyesight was playing up. GPS Warehouse have them in stoc

Re: [ntp:questions] Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.

2009-05-02 Thread David J Taylor
David Lord wrote: [] > I've had $60 but not accept my cc and require $35 bank transfer > fee or $60+ +$75 delivery and others don't export so I gave up. > > DL David, I'm advised that RS Components stock this at GBP 69 + VAT + delivery. A search of their Web site reveals the GPS 18x range:

Re: [ntp:questions] Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.

2009-05-01 Thread David J Taylor
Steve Kostecke wrote: > On 2009-05-01, David J Taylor wrote: > >> That's the newer 18x version. > > The 18x is the replacement for the 18. > >> Garmin's web site seems a little confusing - if I try searching the >> Garmin site for "GPS 18x"

Re: [ntp:questions] Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.

2009-05-01 Thread David J Taylor
Steve Kostecke wrote: [] > The drop-down peoduct selection box on > https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=158&pID=27594 lists the > following versions: > > GPS 18x USB - $84.99 USD > GPS 18x PC - $84.99 USD > GPS 18x LVC, 5m - $79.99 That's the newer 18x version. Garmin's web site seems a litt

Re: [ntp:questions] Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.

2009-05-01 Thread David J Taylor
Steve Kostecke wrote: [] > I was replying to article e-idnzgzia-_i2funz2dnuvz_g9i4...@bresnan.com > where Nathaniel Homier said: > > "... make matters worse the lvc version has been discontinued." > > The LVC _is_ still available. It's the "PC" version which is discontinued. Cheers, David

Re: [ntp:questions] How bad is USB?

2009-05-01 Thread David J Taylor
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: [] > You can try it and see what happens! The results may be sufficiently > good for your purposes. You will almost certainly not get microsecond > accuracy. If you are willing to settle for +/- 10 milliseconds you > can almost certainly get that. > There are (at least

Re: [ntp:questions] Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.

2009-04-30 Thread David J Taylor
E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists wrote: > Steve Kostecke wrote: >> The GPS-18 has been replaced by the GPS-18x. According to >> https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=158&pID=27594 all >> 3 varients are still available. > > 4 variants? > > GPS 18x > Part Number: 010-0

[ntp:questions] How bad is USB? (was: Re: Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.)

2009-04-30 Thread David J Taylor
Garrett Wollman wrote: > In article , > Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > >> USB is nearly useless for NTP! USB has latencies sufficiently large >> and variable to render it unsuitable for use with NTP. [] Garrett, Richard, You've both commented that USB has drawbacks, but in reality what performanc

Re: [ntp:questions] Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.

2009-04-30 Thread David J Taylor
E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: >> Unruh wrote: >>> ... RS232 plug and a USB poser plug. >> >> Where are you proposing he plug the RS232 lead in? Buy a PCI/serial >> card? > > Perhaps he meant a U

Re: [ntp:questions] Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.

2009-04-30 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: > Nathaniel Homier writes: > >> Hello. > >> I would like to know if one can use the line audio out of any old >> portable shortwave radio tuned to a time signal and fed via a line >> audio input. This would be motherboard audio. The primary reason >> is that I get the impression tha

Re: [ntp:questions] making sense of stats offset values [or trying to...]

2009-04-28 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: >> David Woolley wrote: >>> Bruce Lilly wrote: >> [] >>>># ntpq -p >>>> remote refid st t when poll reach delay >>>> offset jitter >>>>

Re: [ntp:questions] making sense of stats offset values [or trying to...]

2009-04-28 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley wrote: > Bruce Lilly wrote: [] >># ntpq -p >> remote refid st t when poll reach delay >> offset jitter >> *megatron.blilly 18.26.4.105 2 u 27 64 377 >> 2.9270.296 0.122 >> # ntptrace >> megatron.blilly.net:

[ntp:questions] Repost: Are there algorithm differences between 4.2.4 and 4.2.5?

2009-04-10 Thread David J Taylor
David J Taylor wrote: > Are there any algorithm of other differences which might cause > noticeable performance differences between 4.2.4 and 4.2.5? For > example: > > - 4.2.5 being more reluctant to increasing the polling interval from > 64s (with a mixture of local stratum-1

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-07 Thread David J Taylor
sheikdawoodraj...@gmail.com wrote: [] > Steve, > what do you exactly mean "ultra high quality time"? > > My ntp service is started running the command below: > "C:\ntp\bin\ntpd.exe" -U 3 -M -g -c "C:\ntp\etc\ntp.conf" > > Are you talking about the -M (Windows only - set high quality > multimedia ti

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd service doesn't connect to remote servers on Windows XP

2009-04-07 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: > >> netstat -ano works correctly on my Windows XP Pro SP3. >> > > I ran strings on the Win 98 version to find the help message, so it > looks like it has changed on XP, although ntpd wouldn't run on 98, > anyway. Ch

[ntp:questions] Solved - ntpd service doesn't connect to remote servers on Windows XP

2009-04-06 Thread David J Taylor
My friend's ISP had an unknown feature - a firewall on the ISP side which blocked traffic other than Web and e-mail. Changing that firewall setting from "high" to "low" and restarting his router allowed NTP to work correctly and discipline his PC's clock. Thanks to all the help and suggestions

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd service doesn't connect to remote servers on Windows XP

2009-04-06 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley wrote: > Danny Mayer wrote: >> >> Instead of all that, just run netstat -an from the command line and >> see if there is anything using 123/UDP port on the local addresses. >> You can then used netstat -ano to get the PID of the application >> using that port. > > He is running Window

Re: [ntp:questions] NPTdate - difference in packets between -q and not?

2009-04-04 Thread David J Taylor
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: >> Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >> [] >>> NTP passes through my router with no problems. I never had to do >>> any configuration to allow it. It seems to fall under "replies to >>> outgoing packets a

Re: [ntp:questions] NPTdate - difference in packets between -q and not?

2009-04-04 Thread David J Taylor
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: [] > NTP passes through my router with no problems. I never had to do any > configuration to allow it. It seems to fall under "replies to > outgoing packets are allowed"! The router is is a LinkSys BEFR81. > YMMV! Yes, my router also "just works". We're trying to figu

Re: [ntp:questions] NPTdate - difference in packets between -q and not?

2009-04-04 Thread David J Taylor
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: [] > Routers sold into the consumer market generally have configuration > options to allow or block ports and some can be configured to block > specific IP addresses or address families. By default they allow > responses to outgoing packets and block all other incoming tr

Re: [ntp:questions] NPTdate - difference in packets between -q and not?

2009-04-04 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: > >> What is the difference in the packets sent and received in the two >> command formats (I appreciate that -q does not set the clock)? > > The source port number. Your friend has a firewall problem. It is > blocking repl

[ntp:questions] NPTdate - difference in packets between -q and not?

2009-04-04 Thread David J Taylor
My friend's system shows that ntpdate works with the "-q" ption, but not without: ___ E:\NTP\bin>ntpdate -q 81.171.44.131 server 81.171.44.131, stratum 2, offset 12.016615, delay 0.05682 4 Apr 08:49:58 ntpdate[3936]: step time server 81.171.44.131 offset 12.016615 sec

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd service doesn't connect to remote servers on Windows XP

2009-04-02 Thread David J Taylor
Dave Hart wrote: > On Apr 2, 8:54 am, "David J Taylor" this-bit.nor-this.co.uk> wrote: >> Running from the command-line, we get: >> >> 2 Apr 09:39:08 ntpd.exe[3984]: frequency initialized 0.000 PPM from >> e:\NTP\etc\ntp.drift >> 2 Apr 09:39:22 ntpd.e

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd service doesn't connect to remote servers on Windows XP

2009-04-02 Thread David J Taylor
David Lord wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: >> David Woolley wrote: >>> Steve Kostecke wrote: >>>> On 2009-04-01, David J Taylor >>>> wrote: >>>>> E:\NTP\bin>ntpq -c as >>>

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd service doesn't connect to remote servers on Windows XP

2009-04-02 Thread David J Taylor
Running from the command-line, we get: 2 Apr 09:39:08 ntpd.exe[3984]: logging to file log.txt 2 Apr 09:39:08 ntpd.exe[3984]: precision = 1.000 usec 2 Apr 09:39:08 ntpd.exe[3984]: Listening on interface #0 wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123 Disabled 2 Apr 09:39:08 ntpd.exe[3984]: Listening on interface #1

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd service doesn't connect to remote servers on Windows XP

2009-04-02 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley wrote: > Steve Kostecke wrote: >> On 2009-04-01, David J Taylor wrote: >> >>> E:\NTP\bin>ntpq -c as >>> >>> ind assID status conf reach auth condition last_event cnt >>> =

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd service doesn't connect to remote servers on Windows XP

2009-04-02 Thread David J Taylor
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: [] > Have you tried "ntpd -g"? That should take care of your offset and > give ntpd a chance to maintain the correct time. Let it run for a > day or two and try "ntpq -p". On a "cold" start, ntpd will need at > least 24 hours to beat your clock into submission. Thanks

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd service doesn't connect to remote servers on Windows XP

2009-04-01 Thread David J Taylor
Steve Kostecke wrote: > On 2009-04-01, David J Taylor wrote: > >> E:\NTP\bin>ntpq -c as >> >> ind assID status conf reach auth condition last_event cnt >> === >> 1 22554 8000 yes yes none

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd service doesn't connect to remote servers on Windows XP

2009-04-01 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: > >> dstport=123, leap=11, stratum=16, precision=-20, rootdelay=0.000, > > > The server is unsynchronised. I don't know how ntpdate worked. > It doesn't seem to be the one against w

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd service doesn't connect to remote servers on Windows XP

2009-04-01 Thread David J Taylor
David J Taylor wrote: > Heiko Gerstung wrote: > [] >> Can you try to run ntpdate -q on the machine >> and check if that works? If not, try ntpdate -qu to use an >> unprivileged port. You would need to stop the NTP service on that >> machine first (net stop n

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd service doesn't connect to remote servers on Windows XP

2009-04-01 Thread David J Taylor
Heiko Gerstung wrote: [] > Can you try to run ntpdate -q on the machine and > check if that works? If not, try ntpdate -qu to use an > unprivileged port. You would need to stop the NTP service on that > machine first (net stop ntp). E:\NTP\bin>ntpdate -q 129.215.160.240 server 129.215.160.240, s

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd service doesn't connect to remote servers on Windows XP

2009-04-01 Thread David J Taylor
Heiko Gerstung wrote: > David J Taylor schrieb: [] ce between nptq.exe sending and >> receiving packets, and ntpd.exe working in its normal manner? > > No, not really. If ntpq works you can be sure that > - network communication works, i.e. you have a valid and working >

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