[ale] possibility of running an NTP server

[Michael Trausch]

a commodity router would not be used for timekeeping in your or my net. The
average person's net, sure. And it would most likely be +/- 3 minutes or
less, in practice, on average. Better than 100% of average user nets I see
today. Seriously.
On Jan 12, 2012 7:47 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 7:24 AM, mike at trausch.us <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
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>> <snip>
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>> I actually wish commodity routers would automatically provide NTP for
>> home networks.  Why?  Because it doesn't truly matter what time the
>> systems on the network have, it is more important that they are
>> consistent with each other.
>>
>> I want them to have a full NTP tier 3 service so they stay synced
> upstream and provide downstream data as well.  I don't care about my home
> LAN being synced together if they are all world off by 20 minutes!
>
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