From: Mike Puchol <mike@starlink.sx>
To: Dave Taht <davet@teklibre.net>, Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
Cc: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Starlink] Microstate Accounting and the Nyquist problem
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2021 18:13:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c75357e6-d3f8-4f82-ae8d-d81009ca84d6@Spark> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31411.1623506452@dooku>
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The basis for the GPS time sync is an atomic clock on board each satellite. I very much doubt Starlink is placing one of those in their birds :-)
Best,
Mike
On Jun 12, 2021, 16:00 +0200, Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>, wrote:
>
> Dave Taht <davet@teklibre.net> wrote:
> > It’s ironic that the device has to have gps in it, and thus should be
> > able to provide perfect time to clients directly behind it, isn’t.
>
> Couldn't starlink satellites *also* provide a GPS reference?
> They are lower and way more of them...
>
> --
> ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [
> ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works | network architect [
> ] mcr@sandelman.ca http://www.sandelman.ca/ | ruby on rails [
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2021-06-09 13:15 ` [Starlink] Fwd: " Dave Taht
2021-06-11 22:14 ` David Collier-Brown
2021-06-11 22:34 ` Mike Puchol
2021-06-11 22:39 ` [Starlink] " Dave Taht
2021-06-11 22:59 ` Nathan Owens
2021-06-11 23:00 ` Dave Taht
2021-06-11 23:09 ` Mike Puchol
2021-06-18 18:17 ` [Starlink] NTP implementations [was: Microstate Accounting and the Nyquist problem] Juliusz Chroboczek
2021-06-12 14:00 ` [Starlink] Microstate Accounting and the Nyquist problem Michael Richardson
2021-06-12 16:13 ` Mike Puchol [this message]
2021-06-12 16:42 ` Nathan Owens
2021-06-12 19:05 ` Mike Puchol
2021-06-12 19:20 ` Gary E. Miller
2021-06-12 1:40 ` [Starlink] Fwd: " Karl Auerbach
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