Articles, tagged with "time synchronisation", page 1

How To Sync A Network Using NTP

PC's maintain time using internal real-time clock chips. These are relatively low cost devices that do not keep very good time. They can drift by seconds or even minutes each day. This can cause real headaches when events need to be ordered across a numbe... Read >
Author: Dave

How To Synchronise a Network

All computers maintain system time from an internal real-time clock chip. These devices are generally relatively low-cost and as a consequence tend not to keep good time. In fact, computers are notorious for providing inaccurate time and can drift by seve... Read >
Author: Dave

Common Time Server Questions

What is a time server? A time server is a device that utilises a single time source and distributes it amongst a network. This enables all machines on a LAN (or WAN) to be synchronised together. What is NTP? Network Time Protocol is a protocol ... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

NTP Time Server Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What is NTP? A. NTP - Network Time Protocol is an Internet protocol for time synchronisation, whilst other time synchronisation protocols are available NTP is by far the most widely used having been around since the mid 1980's when the Internet was st... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

NTP Time Server - The Art of Synchronisation

Even when the Internet when was its infancy, with no more than a few computers connected together it became apparent that there was a need for time synchronisation. Computers are easily confused particularly with time which can only travel in one directio... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

Keeping Accurate Time on Linux: Running a NTP Time Server

Linux operating systems are becoming increasingly popular partly due to the many advantages they have over commercial systems like Windows or OS X. Linux offers increased security (as there are only a handful of viruses that can infect a Linux based syste... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

Using MSF as a Timing Reference for NTP Servers

Atomic clocks are incredibly expensive and generally they are normally only to be found in large scale physics laboratories such as MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology (Colorado) or the Nationa... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

Linux/Unix: Basic NTP Configuration

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is an Internet protocol used for the transfer of accurate time, providing time information so that a precise time can be obtained and maintained on a network Most UNIX and Linux operating systems provide built-in time synchr... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

Configuring Windows as a NTP Server

Microsoft Windows has a built in time synchronisation facility called windows time (w32time.exe). Windows time is based on Network Time Protocol (NTP) an Internet protocol designed to synchronise computers on a network. Using Windows Time service it is... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

Synchronise Time on Your PC using NTP Servers

This article explains how you can synchronise your computer with an absolute time source and can be kept accurate using NTP. Clocks are essential for computers. Everything from sending and email to turning a PC on will involve a timestamp. Computers ar... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

How to Configure Windows Server as a NTP Server

Computer time synchronisation is highly important in modern computer networks, precision and time synchronization is critical in many applications, particularly time sensitive transactions. Just imagine buying an airline seat only to be told at the airpor... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

Windows 2003 Installing and Configuring an Authoritative NTP Network Time Server.

Precision and time synchronisation is highly important for modern computer networks, without synchronisation many time sensitive transactions would be impossible to carry out. The internal clock in computers does keep time and date information but these ... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows Server 2008

Time synchronisation in modern computer networks is essential, all computers need to know the time as many applications, from sending an email to storing information are reliant on the PC knowing when the event took place. Microsoft Windows Server from... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

Configuring Windows XP as a NTP Network Time Server

Time synchronisation in modern computer networks is essential, all computers need to know the time as many applications, from sending an email to storing information are reliant on the PC knowing when the event took place. Microsoft Windows XP has a ti... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

Network Time Protocol: Explaining NTP and Network Time Synchronisation

NTP is almost as old as the Internet itself. It was devised and developed by Dr David Mills of the University of Delaware and has been in constant use and continually updated since 1985. NTP is an internet protocol designed to synchronise clocks on a comp... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

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