Chris Albertson wrote: >> unruh wrote: >>> He can just put the antenna in the inside of the window. > > Most server rooms are not in window offices. > He'd have to find a south facing window, convince the > occupant to allow some antanna to be placed there > and then run cable back to the GPS > or co-locate the GPS with the antenna > and run serial and PPS signals back > to a computer in a server room. > How well this might work would depend on office > politics and the physical layout of the building. > > There are other kinds of radio clocks. > Some work off the cell phone network and will work any > plece you can get a few bars on your phone. > Cell phone antenna don't ned to see the sky.
I (and many of my colleagues have found Cell phones often don't work well deep in rack rooms, especially near the racks. > But for most normal people who just need to run an NTP > server the Internet pool servers are good enough > and you can fall back on Orphan Mode for when the > Internet is down. They could always get a rubidium / cesium, frequency / time reference (for a lot more money), if the office politics and the physical layout of the building, won't allow for them using GPS, DSF, MSF, ... -- E-Mail Sent to this address <[email protected]> will be added to the BlackLists. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
