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Harry Bloomfield wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Dave Plowman (News) wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Dave Plowman (News) wrote


Any digitally based transmission system has latency.


But it is perfectly possible to compensate for that.


No it isn't.


Corse it is, that's what NTP does.


When Windows does its NTP time check, it checks the delays
through the network several times before actually setting your
RTC - using an offset to take care of the average network delay.


Yeah, that's what I meant.