Greetings, in the archives I found some discussion earlier this year (Subject was "Effect of a DSL connection") where systemic offsets of one or two msec where discussed.
But when I started to use the de.pool.ntp.org for my internet servers, I immediatedly got a Stratum 1 with a constant offset of 50 msec. Its pool-statistics showed this server to be consistantly 'acceptable'. And because of his S 1 that server started to dominate all others. So how much offset is considered acceptable? And would it not be a better idea to require servers with lower stratum to have a lower offset also? Otherwise the users of the pool might do as I did: switch back to a known good server. When I can bring a normal server without any additional hardware easily to within 10 msec of the reference used, I want to have a reference with at least the same accuracy. Or am I wrong? In effect this question is about quantity vs quality. But if the pool gets a reputation for bad quality, the way back might be impossible. If the target user is indeed the normal PC-User (with a wish for 0.5 sec accuracy), then the pool should be good enough for their LAN or server admin, because that's the peer group leader regarding network-time. And a LAN or server admin wouldn't use time servers with more than (say) 10 msecs offset to each other; everything else could be done better by himself with a simple configuration change. God bless you Michael
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