Martin Jansen wrote: > Chris Kuethe wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Ryan Malayter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I think using some high-school-level statistics would be more >>> reliable... compute the standard deviation of offsets, and anything >>> outside of N standard deviations gets kicked out of the pool. Or >>> something like that. You have to presume that the crowd is more >>> knowledgable than the monitoring server about what true time is. >> For less than $100 you should be able to hang a gps off the back of a >> monitoring server. Then it too will have a good estimate of what the >> true time was. > > Most servers in the pool (including the monitoring box, I assume) are > hosted in data centers with little to no GPS signal reception inside the > buildings. Ways of convincing providers to drill holes in their walls > for routing antenna cables have been discussed here in the past -- none > were very successful IIRC. ;-) >
CDMA should not be affected nearly as much as GPS. My mobile works in most of the data centers I go into, is CDMA not an option? _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
