[ntp:questions] How bad is USB?

Uwe Klein uwe_klein_habertwedt at t-online.de
Sun May 10 11:41:16 UTC 2009


David J Taylor wrote:
> Uwe Klein wrote:
> 
>> David J Taylor wrote:
>>
>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>> []
>>>
>>>> You can try it and see what happens!  The results may be
>>>> sufficiently good for your purposes.  You will almost certainly not
>>>> get microsecond accuracy.  If you are willing to settle for +/- 10
>>>> milliseconds you can almost certainly get that.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Richard,
>>>
>>> My first tests show within a millisecond or so:
>>>
>>>  http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/NTP-on-Windows-serial-port.html#usb
>>>
>>
>> Do I see a (sawtoth) beat signal between "true" time and the
>> nominally 1ms polling interval from the usb bus?
>>
>> uwe
> 
> 
> Uwe,
Hi Dave,

> 
> I don't think so.  If you mean the sawtooth on the left, peaking at 1600 
> the first day and 0800 the second, that's pure temperature variation.  
Yes, that's what caught my eye.

> PC Narvik was not switched to USB/serial until about 1530 on day 2.  
OK,
> There is an increased fine-grain variation in the offset after the 
> change, but the jitter reported by NTP has dropped from 110-140 
> microseconds to about 45 microseconds after the switch from LAN-sync to 
> USB-serial-ref-clock.
> 
> There are more performance graphs here:
>  http://www.satsignal.eu/mrtg/performance_ntp.php
>  http://www.satsignal.eu/mrtg/daily_ntp-p.html
Thanks.

uwe




More information about the questions mailing list