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by cremp 2855 days ago
> Configuring Wi-Fi

That alone will negate any benefit of running a stratum 1. You lose the precision and accuracy over wifi. Jitter on intranet with the pi as a timesource would be magnitudes greater than the GPS link.

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Not exactly. Sometimes it's more helpful to have a local time source that you know is accurate but has a little jitter than to have a remote time source with intermittent Internet.
RPi's ethernet-over-USB is no better: it aggregates packets to compensate for limited bandwitdh, incurring killer jitter.