[ntp:questions] NTP Third party client on Windows OS ?

Evandro Menezes evandro at mailinator.com
Mon Sep 17 18:56:47 UTC 2007


On Sep 17, 9:44 am, ja... at extremeoverclocking.com (Jason Rabel) wrote:

> You can maintain *decent* time with the w32time service if you lower the
> period between time updates (via registry edit).
>
> However, there are a couple binary NTP distributions for Windows. The most
> popular is published by Meinberg.

I actually noticed that W32TIME with the registry tweaked to keep the
polling between 64 and 1024s (instead of the default 64 and 32768s) is
capable of keeping the time in sync better than Meinberg's NTP port.

With NTP, I guess because the Windows kernel doesn't allow for a good
discipline, the clock would be stepped more often than it could be
slewed.  Or is it my system the problem?

PS: see http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/60b22065-a3c9-42e2-8594-21d766e733391033.mspx?mfr=true
about the registry entries for W32TIME.




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