[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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