Re: [Pool] huffpuff/asymmetrical connections

2012-09-12 Thread ntppool
On 9/11/2012 15:01, Matt Joyce wrote: While hopefully someone else will get back to you shortly with a more definite answer, I strongly suspect that the transmission delay of the NTP packets themselves would be too minimal to make much difference. Usually around 76 bytes with ethernet overhead

Re: [Pool] huffpuff/asymmetrical connections

2012-09-12 Thread Hal Murray
ntpp...@arpage.org 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

Re: [Pool] huffpuff/asymmetrical connections

2012-09-12 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Monday, September 10, 2012 at 13:57, ntpp...@arpage.org wrote: However, this server IS on an asymmetrical ADSL connection, 6mbit/s down and 1mbit/s up As I think I've mentioned before, I really think the effect of this is overestimated -- or maybe it varies from connection to connection.