[e2e] Accuracy achievable with NTP
Jonathan M. Smith
jms at central.cis.upenn.edu
Thu Apr 10 09:48:13 PDT 2003
Woojune:
I found #8 on David Mills's list particularly useful:
http://www.ece.udel.edu/~mills/papers.html
-JMS
> Hi,
>
> I've been looking for info on how accurate NTP can be. I've looked in various NTP related sites and still not quite sure.
>
> Say I have a LAN like environment with delays in the range of 10s of ms. How accurate a time can I get from NTP, assuming I have the appropriate HW clocks on my host ?
>
> Say I have a corporate network like environment, relatively segregated from the Internet at large, with delays in the range of 100ms. How accurate a time can I get ?
>
> Say the delay range goes upto 500ms, how accurate can the time be ?
>
> Any pointers to specific experiments or data would be appreciated.
>
> thanks
>
> Woojune Kim
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