Quoth Hal Murray at 2008-02-27 17:03... > It's simple after you see it.
Now you've explained it, yes it is :-) > You can get a good estimate of the 1-way delay by polling a typical remote > box and dividing the response time by two. (Correct for packet lengths if > that matters.) I could even integrate that into the system - at least for the 2-way nodes. > Check the numbers. or try it. If the PC is mostly lightly loaded you may not > need any real-time stuff. Just let the scheduler do its thing. It may screw > up at 3AM when some cron job does a lot of disk activity. Who cares. I'll probably stick with the microcontroller as I don't think I'll have a PC involved at all when I'm testing the RF link. Many thanks for helping to get this through my thick skull! It seems so simple now... Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.