[ntp:questions] Re: Improving ACTS performance

Hal Murray hmurray at suespammers.org
Tue Apr 11 07:05:28 UTC 2006


>I had the same problem as you several months ago. The offset and jitter
>are in the range of 20-60ms. And ntpd kept compalining about lost
>syncronization. Tried different modems and phone lines, but didn't
>help. Eventually, gave up and went with GPS source. Have to spend a lot
>of money to submit the architecture plan, pull cables and a GPS signal
>booster.

Is it cheaper to pull special cables or to install a NTP server
closer to the GPS antenna?

I'm assuming you can get a cat5/ethernet cable to the NTP server
easier than you can get "special" cables installed.

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