Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread Bill Hawkins
I haven't read the entire thread, but this may be relevant. If not, you know where to find the delete key. I live in a life care community - one of 450 people in 300 apartments on 3 floors. When I moved in a year ago, I could get Internet from the house cable, and they provided the modem. I boug

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread Scott Stobbe
Yes, it will be interesting to see how well wifi rtt/tof does indoors with plenty of multipath. But for sure sub microsecond. On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 6:32 PM Bob Camp wrote: > Hi > > > > > > > On Jan 14, 2017, at 5:29 PM, Scott Stobbe > wrote: > > > > > > I don't think wifi is ever going to be

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread jimlux
On 1/14/17 4:25 PM, Bob Camp wrote: Hi Maybe the magic stamping has been hiding in the chips all along. What’s pretty clear is that if it’s there, it’s well hidden …. or totally unstandardized - it might be one of those "we put it in for manufacturing test" features, and everyone does it diffe

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Maybe the magic stamping has been hiding in the chips all along. What’s pretty clear is that if it’s there, it’s well hidden …. Bob > On Jan 14, 2017, at 7:04 PM, jimlux wrote: > > On 1/14/17 3:32 PM, Bob Camp wrote: >> Hi >> >> >>> On Jan 14, 2017, at 5:29 PM, Scott Stobbe wrote: >>>

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread jimlux
On 1/14/17 3:32 PM, Bob Camp wrote: Hi On Jan 14, 2017, at 5:29 PM, Scott Stobbe wrote: I don't think wifi is ever going to be a real-time system, as it shares the ether with all other ISM devices. That said even 1 ms of variation is still 4 orders of magnitude greater than the actual time o

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread Bob Camp
Hi > On Jan 14, 2017, at 5:29 PM, Scott Stobbe wrote: > > I don't think wifi is ever going to be a real-time system, as it shares the > ether with all other ISM devices. That said even 1 ms of variation is still > 4 orders of magnitude greater than the actual time of flight. > > The precision

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread Scott Stobbe
I don't think wifi is ever going to be a real-time system, as it shares the ether with all other ISM devices. That said even 1 ms of variation is still 4 orders of magnitude greater than the actual time of flight. The precision time aspect will most certainly be done in hardware, even if it's just

Re: [time-nuts] Thermal effects on cables --> ADEV

2017-01-14 Thread Azelio Boriani
May I suggest to turn the 24 hours reset period into a parameter? On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote: > Mark, Ole, > > Yes, averaging can both enhance precision but also destroy information. In > many cases too much data is a bad thing. The solution is to add another > dimensio

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Here’s what I am seeing: 64 bytes from 192.168.2.2: icmp_seq=3700 ttl=64 time=5.025 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.2.2: icmp_seq=3701 ttl=64 time=4.579 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.2.2: icmp_seq=3702 ttl=64 time=1.511 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.2.2: icmp_seq=3703 ttl=64 time=1.601 ms 64 bytes from 192.168

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread Hal Murray
kb...@n1k.org said: > Ok, what I see is that every few hours, I get a “rogue delay” on a single > ping. How would NTP help me spot a single transit with a 250 ms round trip > and identify the time it occured? Keep in mind that NTP is going to > throttle back to a very low level of “chat”

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread Mark Spencer
Sorry as this is perhaps a bit off topic but I've tried to make this somewhat time nuts relevant. Over the years I found ping tests have worked quite well (at least on WAN links) to roughly measure network bandwidth. When I used to visit remote sites with WAN links I would often perform severa

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread Orin Eman
I merely used the ping to demonstrate Wireshark's packet time stamping (though in this case, it seems that the router responds immediately). FWIW, a couple of NTP packets got captured too with a 34 ms round trip. I was actually looking for an ARP request/response in consecutive packets on the grou

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread Bob Camp
Hi > On Jan 14, 2017, at 1:38 PM, Chris Albertson > wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Bob Camp wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Ok, what I see is that every few hours, I get a “rogue delay” on a single >> ping. How >> would NTP help me spot a single transit with a 250 ms round trip and >> ide

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread Bob Camp
Hi The issue with using Wireshark is that it still is looking at a ping. It may tag the event to one more digit, but all of the earlier mentioned issues with pings are still there. Simply put, they aren’t the greatest thing for testing timing. Bob > On Jan 14, 2017, at 1:51 PM, Orin Eman wrot

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread Orin Eman
You could run a network monitor, Wireshark for example... https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/WLAN There are specialized WIFI capture programs, but they tend to be designed to break into networks rather than monitor performance - kismet/kismac. I run them every so often to check for malfeasa

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread Chris Albertson
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Bob Camp wrote: > Hi > > Ok, what I see is that every few hours, I get a “rogue delay” on a single > ping. How > would NTP help me spot a single transit with a 250 ms round trip and > identify the > time it occured? Keep in mind that NTP is going to throttle back

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread Bob Camp
Hi > On Jan 14, 2017, at 12:44 PM, jimlux wrote: > > On 1/14/17 8:35 AM, Bob Camp wrote: >> Hi >> > >> >> I also believe that ping data is one way to come up with an upper bound on >> just how awful WiFi timing can be. If others have a similar single shot >> measure >> of WiFi round trip th

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread jimlux
On 1/14/17 8:35 AM, Bob Camp wrote: Hi I also believe that ping data is one way to come up with an upper bound on just how awful WiFi timing can be. If others have a similar single shot measure of WiFi round trip that can be run on a wide range of devices, I’d certainly be just as interest

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread Bob Camp
Hi We have a double issue here: 1) It’s a problem because “not enough information was given" 2) It’s a problem because “we are talking about it to much” Sorry, but there is absolutely no way at all both of those criteria can be met by me. I do believe that WiFi time protocols are an on topic

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread jimlux
On 1/14/17 7:53 AM, John Hawkinson wrote: I tried to engage with you off-list and give you some pointers on this, but that does not seem to be working. Consumer wifi driver problems are manifestly inappropriate for this list, and trying to do both at once leads to gross confusion :( I know this

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread jimlux
On 1/14/17 7:46 AM, Bob Camp wrote: Hi Ok, what I see is that every few hours, I get a “rogue delay” on a single ping. How would NTP help me spot a single transit with a 250 ms round trip and identify the time it occured? Keep in mind that NTP is going to throttle back to a very low level of

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread John Hawkinson
This has nothing to do with time-nuts, can it stop please? [ I don't know what forum to send you to for "weird wifi problems"; there is probably no good one, because it is a very common consumer problem :( ] NTP was mentioned because you (Bob Camp) had not defined the problem very well, and asked

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread Bob Camp
Hi This is very much a one laptop to one router issue. The other couple dozen laptops and tablets do not see an issue. The whole thing started when a series of firmware updates rolled through a few weeks ago. The laptop is *maybe* 12 feet from the router. It’s running at 5 GHz so microwaves (a

Re: [time-nuts] wifi with time sync

2017-01-14 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Ok, what I see is that every few hours, I get a “rogue delay” on a single ping. How would NTP help me spot a single transit with a 250 ms round trip and identify the time it occured? Keep in mind that NTP is going to throttle back to a very low level of “chat” quite quickly….. While this *