[time-nuts] Meinberg or T/Bolt for PC time?

2014-08-11 Thread Chris Wilson
11/08/2014 18:26 I have 4 windows based PC's on my home network, for years i have used Meinberg or an equivalent to set the PC time. I was wondering if I could, or should, use my permanently on Trimble Thunderbolt to set the PC clocks? Any advantages or disadvantages. I believe there's a way

Re: [time-nuts] Meinberg or T/Bolt for PC time?

2014-08-11 Thread David J Taylor
I have 4 windows based PC's on my home network, for years i have used Meinberg or an equivalent to set the PC time. I was wondering if I could, or should, use my permanently on Trimble Thunderbolt to set the PC clocks? Any advantages or disadvantages. I believe there's a way to use Lady Heather

Re: [time-nuts] Meinberg or T/Bolt for PC time?

2014-08-11 Thread Chris Albertson
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Chris Wilson ch...@chriswilson.tv wrote: 11/08/2014 18:26 I have 4 windows based PC's on my home network, for years i have used Meinberg or an equivalent to set the PC time. The best way the keep the PC clocks in sync would be to run NTP on all the PCs.

Re: [time-nuts] Meinberg or T/Bolt for PC time?

2014-08-11 Thread Hal Murray
ch...@chriswilson.tv said: I have 4 windows based PC's on my home network, for years i have used Meinberg or an equivalent to set the PC time. I was wondering if I could, or should, use my permanently on Trimble Thunderbolt to set the PC clocks? Any advantages or disadvantages. I believe

Re: [time-nuts] Meinberg or T/Bolt for PC time?

2014-08-11 Thread Tim Shoppa
Assuming you mean Meinberg Radio Clock, and you are also using Meinberg or generic NTPD to talk to the Meinberg radio clock: You can configure NTPD to use two stratum-0 refclocks hooked to the same PC - you can make one be the Meinberg radio clock, and have the other be hooked to the Trimble

Re: [time-nuts] Meinberg or T/Bolt for PC time?

2014-08-11 Thread Chris Albertson
LOTs of suggestions here but I'd do this first: 1) Define the timing requirements for Ham digital modes. Are you on HF or microwave? what level of accuracy do you need? 2) Read all the documentation on NTP you can. Start here: http://www.ntp.org/documentation.html So many people don't