[ntp:questions] Re: stratum

Bjorn Gabrielsson bg at lysator.liu.se
Tue Sep 27 03:06:59 UTC 2005


"David Schwartz" <davids at webmaster.com> writes:

> "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote in message 
> news:ntGdnb0WbdMEM6XeRVn-3A at comcast.com...
> 
> > Then I'll revise my estimate upwards.  A server running on modern hardware 
> > and with 45Mbit bandwidth available should be able to handle something 
> > like 200,000 well behaved clients.  I suspect, however, that the cost of 
> > T3 service is such that damned few servers have that much bandwidth 
> > available.
> 
>     Quite the reverse, most publically accessible servers are probably run 
> by larger institutions that have much more bandwidth than that.
> 
>     DS

An observation - in the local pool.ntp-zone where I live, a majority
of the servers have internet connections of 1GBit (or more).

--
        Björn




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