[time-nuts] Time servers on a well known web site.

2009-07-09 Thread Dave Baxter
Just found these on eBlag. Way outside my price range, but... 220445049656 Not sure if it actualy does GPS disiplined stuff, as there is no GPS antenna socket! 180370118043 Still too rich for me. And when you consider even a new NSLUG is about £65, and the GPS is not an expensive item

Re: [time-nuts] Time servers on a well known web site.

2009-07-09 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Dave Baxterd...@uk-ar.co.uk wrote: Just found these on eBlag. Way outside my price range, but... 220445049656   Not sure if it actualy does GPS disiplined stuff, as there is no GPS antenna socket! 180370118043   Still too rich for me.  And when you consider

Re: [time-nuts] Time servers on a well known web site.

2009-07-09 Thread Dave Baxter
chris.kue...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Time servers on a well known web site. To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Message-ID: 91981b3e0907090854v54af33d4v31fd6d184f3a...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu

Re: [time-nuts] Time servers on a well known web site.

2009-07-09 Thread Hal Murray
Some of the earlier Linksys WRTG routers are also popular targets for home brewed Linux based appliances, and there is also a lot of information about regarding hacking the hardware to include a real serial port too. (Seems, the only parts missing are the RS232 line drivers, and the 9way D

Re: [time-nuts] Time servers on a well known web site.

2009-07-09 Thread Hal Murray
Wonder too just how accurate it is, using a USB based (non PPS) GPS? The picture looked like a GlobalSat BU-353. I guess you could build a NTP server out one, but I wouldn't expect time-nuts quality. I've been looking for low cost GPS units that work well with NTP. I haven't found much.

Re: [time-nuts] Time servers on a well known web site.

2009-07-09 Thread Javier Herrero
Early WRT54G boxes had lots (relatively speaking) of RAM/ROM. To cut costs, Linksys switched from Linux to ??? and reduced the RAM. to VxWorks Regards, Javier -- Javier HerreroEMAIL:

Re: [time-nuts] Time servers on a well known web site.

2009-07-09 Thread bg
Some of the earlier Linksys WRTG routers are also popular targets for home brewed Linux based appliances, and there is also a lot of information about regarding hacking the hardware to include a real serial port too. (Seems, the only parts missing are the RS232 line drivers, and the 9way D