Bob Camp <[email protected]> wrote on Fri, 13 Jan 2017 at 15:35:19 -0500 in <[email protected]>:
> What standard protocol would you recommend I run from the command > line on my computer to get a quick estimate of the timing lag and > variablilty on my particular WiFi connection? Bob: I hope you read the whole of my message, rather than just the short upper part you quoted. I said "I'm not aware of a tool that does this today" -- I don't think there is a good answer. ==> There isn't one. <== You can certainly use ping to get a gross upper bound. But rememnber it's a gross upper bound, and the underlying technology can do much better. As Chris said, ntp will do a good job telling you the delay between two hosts (that are running ntp and talking to each other) by sending a lot of samples and averaging over time. But what is your application here? You haven't made it clear. Ping is not representative of what you could get with a wifi using a new technology, which was what was how this thread started, and so the context some of the anwers (esp. mine) are in. Ping is representative of other things, though. [email protected] John Hawkinson _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
