>Does anyone else want a bunch of Windows systems sending 5 packets >every 4 seconds to NTP servers? ;^>
This paper doesn't describe an an actual product, it's just a demo from MS Research. Nor is it something that would ever be unleashed on the internet's public NTP servers. The proposal is for WiFi-based audio devices. They are time-synchronized using modified NTP so they can play their assigned audio packets at the correct time (an application in which microseconds matter, because the human ear is a sensitive timing device). The time source is the audio bitstream generator on the same WiFi LAN (DVD player or whatever), not a public NTP server. I think what Terje is hoping is that the higher-resolution system timers and better interrupt handling will find it's way into Windows some day (not the 1.25 packets/second behavior). It does look as though the high-resolution, hardware-supported timers are coming in Windows Vista: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/CEC/mm-timer.mspx _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
