How close (on an average) is AS servers time to the official ebay time? is it in split seconds or mostly around a second or two? Also, is there a good utility to accurately sync your computer clock to ebay's time?

* a note on manual sniping...
I sniped on a friend's computer (dial up at around 50K speed) but I think his cache was waaayy to loaded up. The refresh was killing me. If you keep your disk optimized and temp file relatively empty, with a decent connection you should have a much better chance for a last second snipe. However, do these programs that offer advanced caching (5x speed on dial-up) offer an advantage to a refresh? I know it's not bandwidth related, just an advanced caching system, but it could turn up an extra ace in your favor when you're "on the wire".

Thanks guys!

Ooops,

should have clarified...5x surfing speed like what Juno, Netzero or AOL would offer!

This doesn't really answer your question, but may help with your problem.

Check out >This< site. (Java needed)

Our clocks are within 1/1000 of a second of eBays. We use the same atomic clock to keep our times up to date as they do. A program constantly runs keep all the servers in our network in tune.