[ntp:questions] Syncing to nearby vs. faraway servers
Richard B. Gilbert
rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Tue Jun 16 19:52:56 UTC 2009
Unruh wrote:
> John Hasler <john at dhh.gt.org> writes:
>
>> Richard B. Gilbert writes:
>>> Country pools were a good start and probably adequate for small
>>> countries. Countries the size of the U.S. or the U.S.S.R. can't use a
>>> country wide pool and have much hope of getting a nearby server. For the
>>> U.S. I'd want a "New England pool", a "middle Atlantic pool" (New Jersey,
>>> Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virgina), a Southern Atlantic Pool,
>>> etc. This assumes that "net space" maps well to geographical space which
>>> may not always be a good assumption.
>
>> My best servers are often on the coasts. I'm in Wisconsin. In any case
>> country pools are quite adequate for 99% of users for whom anything better
>> than +-0.5 seconds is good enough.
>
>>> If a request for a pool server could specify the requester's latitude and
>>> longitude perhaps that information could be used to assign a nearby
>>> server?
>
>> Seems like an unnecessary complication. Anyone who needs that sort of
>> performance should be willing and able to select servers by hand.
>> --
>
> Or buy themselves a GPS time source.
>
I've done both!
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