[ntp:questions] Re: NTP Pool rules vs. four-server advice

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Tue Dec 20 13:58:57 UTC 2005


Bjorn Gabrielsson wrote:

>"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
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>>The pool servers, mostly not backed by the government or wealthy
>>companies or institutions of higher education, are even more fragile.
>>They generally have network connections of rather modest capacities.
>>I suspect that they frequently run, not on the latest and greatest
>>hardware, but on the hardware  nobody else wanted!
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>There are also pool servers sitting on 1Gbps (maybe even 10Gb) network
>connections and getting time from a H-maser. 
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>In the little corner of Internet where I live, 50% or more of the pool
>servers have 1Gbps Internet connections, though some servers might be
>"limited" by 100Mbps network cards. 
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>     Björn
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How do you get a 1Gbps  {\em Internet} connection?  Fiber optics?  What 
is the cost per month?  Where I live that kind of bandwidth is simply 
not available to ordinary mortals!  T3/E3 costs something like $8000 US 
per month.




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