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geerlingguyyesterday at 10:51 PM1 replyview on HN

Switches that properly support PTP are expensive, at least for now.

You can achieve microsecond accuracy with a lot of non-timing-specific networking hardware, but it's around as good as you get with modern NTP...

To get sub-microsecond, you need hardware that supports transparent/boundary clock and doesn't just 'say' it does, but actually does (vendors have stamped PTP support on things that definitely don't account for time correctly internally!).


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hdgvhicvtoday at 10:23 AM

TC are fine for the typical number of devices at home, and are very cheap.