[email protected] said:
> Frontier has me provisioned at 6944kbit/s down and 1152kbit/s up, so it
> presumably takes 179 µs to download an NTP packet vs. 1078 µs to upload one.

> My interest here is mostly academic, though if I ever come into possession
> of a GPS or WWV receiver I'd like to run a stratum 1 server for the pool.
> In that case, would the differing latency be enough to send bad time to my
> clients?  I've been told it cancels out for WAN clients when you run a
> stratum 2 server, but not for a stratum 1 server on an asymmetrical link.

Call that 1 ms.  The clock will appear to be off by 1/2 ms.  You can probably 
measure that, but asymmetric routing  is likely to add bigger errors.

You might be able to fudge your GPS to compensate for the network asymmetry.  
I don't know of anybody who has done that.




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