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Jacques Pecourt
 

I installed and used NTP Meinberg a year ago with great success until something new occurred recently. Basically my setup takes forever to reach the "377" mark . It used to be a couple of minutes in the past, not half 1/2 hour or more now.. I use the "ntpq -p " (Auto-Refresh every 10s) rather than entering. "ntpq -pn".on the command prompt. I have the "Disable other time Services" checked on Win 10 PRo (ver. 9041.746).
Within the documentation I have I cannot find any ways to change the 3 URL designations that came up when I installed the program and wonder if any of them is different from the past. Curiosity led me to search where these physical locations were. Referring to the picture below, they are respectively "Asia Pacific Network Information Center'', 'University of Madison Wisconsin" and "Los Angeles CA.". When I start the display, the top one is always marked with a +.   After a  (long) while, the other ones will connect and eventually the 377 number will appear. The offset will then be within + or - milliseconds.  I wonder if my initial connection is somewhere across the globe when I start, and the huge delay before reaching the 2 other addresses and the expected result. Is there any way I could change this situation and possibly connect to a more local or close network instead of the existing one out of nowhere ?
Thank you for any help.
 
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Jacques. W2/F2YS
Danny Bush
 

Jacques,
My Meinbert NTP stopped working completely until I updated it...apparently they just had an update or mine was behind. Either way, as soon as I did the update it rebooted and started working immediately.
 
73,
Danny  NF4J

 
 
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2021 at 2:28 PM
From: "Jacques Pecourt" <jmp426@...>
To: "WSJT" <WSJTX@groups.io>
Subject: [WSJTX] #FT8 Meinberg NTP
I installed and used NTP Meinberg a year ago with great success until something new occurred recently. Basically my setup takes forever to reach the "377" mark . It used to be a couple of minutes in the past, not half 1/2 hour or more now.. I use the "ntpq -p " (Auto-Refresh every 10s) rather than entering. "ntpq -pn".on the command prompt. I have the "Disable other time Services" checked on Win 10 PRo (ver. 9041.746).
Within the documentation I have I cannot find any ways to change the 3 URL designations that came up when I installed the program and wonder if any of them is different from the past. Curiosity led me to search where these physical locations were. Referring to the picture below, they are respectively "Asia Pacific Network Information Center'', 'University of Madison Wisconsin" and "Los Angeles CA.". When I start the display, the top one is always marked with a +.   After a  (long) while, the other ones will connect and eventually the 377 number will appear. The offset will then be within + or - milliseconds.  I wonder if my initial connection is somewhere across the globe when I start, and the huge delay before reaching the 2 other addresses and the expected result. Is there any way I could change this situation and possibly connect to a more local or close network instead of the existing one out of nowhere ?
Thank you for any help.
 
image.png
 
Jacques. W2/F2YS
Bill Somerville
 

On 02/02/2021 20:28, Jacques Pecourt wrote:
I installed and used NTP Meinberg a year ago with great success until something new occurred recently. Basically my setup takes forever to reach the "377" mark . It used to be a couple of minutes in the past, not half 1/2 hour or more now.. I use the "ntpq -p " (Auto-Refresh every 10s) rather than entering. "ntpq -pn".on the command prompt. I have the "Disable other time Services" checked on Win 10 PRo (ver. 9041.746).
Within the documentation I have I cannot find any ways to change the 3 URL designations that came up when I installed the program and wonder if any of them is different from the past. Curiosity led me to search where these physical locations were. Referring to the picture below, they are respectively "Asia Pacific Network Information Center'', 'University of Madison Wisconsin" and "Los Angeles CA.". When I start the display, the top one is always marked with a +.   After a  (long) while, the other ones will connect and eventually the 377 number will appear. The offset will then be within + or - milliseconds.  I wonder if my initial connection is somewhere across the globe when I start, and the huge delay before reaching the 2 other addresses and the expected result. Is there any way I could change this situation and possibly connect to a more local or close network instead of the existing one out of nowhere ?
Thank you for any help.
 
image.png

Jacques. W2/F2YS

Hi Jacques,

the Meinberg NTP client installer  suggests you select pool servers from the pool.ntp.org project, using pool servers allows the best performing servers to be rotated every few minutes so you get best synchronization. All you should have to do is select 3 or 4 pool servers from your local pool, something like:

0.pool.north-america.pool.ntp.org
1.pool.north-america.pool.ntp.org
2.pool.north-america.pool.ntp.org
3.pool.north-america.pool.ntp.org

See https://www.pool.ntp.org/en/use.html for details.

Make sure you have the 'iburst' attribute on each server line in your configuration file to obtain fast initial synchronization.

73
Bill
G4WJS.
Jacques Pecourt
 

Good point Danny. I was thinking about doing that too unless someone comes up with the solution to change the original networks to closer ones.

Thank you/ and 73's   Jacques.



On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 at 15:44, Danny Bush <NF4J@...> wrote:
Jacques,
My Meinbert NTP stopped working completely until I updated it...apparently they just had an update or mine was behind. Either way, as soon as I did the update it rebooted and started working immediately.
 
73,
Danny  NF4J
 
 
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2021 at 2:28 PM
From: "Jacques Pecourt" <jmp426@...>
To: "WSJT" <WSJTX@groups.io>
Subject: [WSJTX] #FT8 Meinberg NTP
I installed and used NTP Meinberg a year ago with great success until something new occurred recently. Basically my setup takes forever to reach the "377" mark . It used to be a couple of minutes in the past, not half 1/2 hour or more now.. I use the "ntpq -p " (Auto-Refresh every 10s) rather than entering. "ntpq -pn".on the command prompt. I have the "Disable other time Services" checked on Win 10 PRo (ver. 9041.746).
Within the documentation I have I cannot find any ways to change the 3 URL designations that came up when I installed the program and wonder if any of them is different from the past. Curiosity led me to search where these physical locations were. Referring to the picture below, they are respectively "Asia Pacific Network Information Center'', 'University of Madison Wisconsin" and "Los Angeles CA.". When I start the display, the top one is always marked with a +.   After a  (long) while, the other ones will connect and eventually the 377 number will appear. The offset will then be within + or - milliseconds.  I wonder if my initial connection is somewhere across the globe when I start, and the huge delay before reaching the 2 other addresses and the expected result. Is there any way I could change this situation and possibly connect to a more local or close network instead of the existing one out of nowhere ?
Thank you for any help.
 
image.png
 
Jacques. W2/F2YS
Jacques Pecourt
 

Wonderful suggestion Bill. I missed that option.
Thank you as always.

73's Jacques.
l 

On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 at 15:55, Bill Somerville <g4wjs@...> wrote:
On 02/02/2021 20:28, Jacques Pecourt wrote:
I installed and used NTP Meinberg a year ago with great success until something new occurred recently. Basically my setup takes forever to reach the "377" mark . It used to be a couple of minutes in the past, not half 1/2 hour or more now.. I use the "ntpq -p " (Auto-Refresh every 10s) rather than entering. "ntpq -pn".on the command prompt. I have the "Disable other time Services" checked on Win 10 PRo (ver. 9041.746).
Within the documentation I have I cannot find any ways to change the 3 URL designations that came up when I installed the program and wonder if any of them is different from the past. Curiosity led me to search where these physical locations were. Referring to the picture below, they are respectively "Asia Pacific Network Information Center'', 'University of Madison Wisconsin" and "Los Angeles CA.". When I start the display, the top one is always marked with a +.   After a  (long) while, the other ones will connect and eventually the 377 number will appear. The offset will then be within + or - milliseconds.  I wonder if my initial connection is somewhere across the globe when I start, and the huge delay before reaching the 2 other addresses and the expected result. Is there any way I could change this situation and possibly connect to a more local or close network instead of the existing one out of nowhere ?
Thank you for any help.
 
image.png

Jacques. W2/F2YS

Hi Jacques,

the Meinberg NTP client installer  suggests you select pool servers from the pool.ntp.org project, using pool servers allows the best performing servers to be rotated every few minutes so you get best synchronization. All you should have to do is select 3 or 4 pool servers from your local pool, something like:

0.pool.north-america.pool.ntp.org
1.pool.north-america.pool.ntp.org
2.pool.north-america.pool.ntp.org
3.pool.north-america.pool.ntp.org

See https://www.pool.ntp.org/en/use.html for details.

Make sure you have the 'iburst' attribute on each server line in your configuration file to obtain fast initial synchronization.

73
Bill
G4WJS.
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