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[List of public German NTP servers | http://www.hullen.de/helmut/filebox/DCF77/ntpsrvr.html].

!!! Stratum 1 Servers

-First: __be nice!__

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- You shouldn't synchronise to a stratum 1 server for your small network -- if everyone did that then the server would need too much bandwidth. For example. NetGear hard-coded a public [NTP] server into some of their consumer products, which eventually ended up using hundreds of Mbits/second of the university's bandwidth, even after they were forced to shut down the server.

+First: __be nice!__ You shouldn't synchronise to a stratum 1 server for your small network -- if everyone did that then the server would need too much bandwidth. For example. NetGear hard-coded a public [NTP] server into some of their consumer products, which eventually ended up using hundreds of Mbits/second of the university's bandwidth, even after they were forced to shut down the server.

The difference in accuracy between syncing to a stratum 1 server and a lower stratum server is negligible.

!! NewZealand