[time-nuts] Discipline an oscillator with NTP?

David J Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk
Sun Jul 24 04:50:44 UTC 2011


> Indeed thats why I was saying choose 3 servers.
> Now I see in the thread that you can pick pools of servers so thats 
> good.
> Then average what they say the time is and drive oscillator.
> Wonder if you could look towards the stratum 1 servers.
> But that said I could easily believe that it might ot be any better then
> wwv.
> Good thread. Things to learn as we all seek a backup to GPS I assume.
> Regards
> Paul
> WB8TSL

Paul, be aware that three servers is not the best choice, as if one fails 
you are left with two servers, and you don't know which is correct.  IIRC 
four, five and seven servers allow for the failure of 1, 2 or 3 of them, 
but do choose more than three.

73,
David
GM8ARV 





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