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"The bad thing about satellite that makes it unsuitable for many use cases will always remain to be latency, not speed or availability. 1.5 second ping is perfe
by rsync 11y ago
"The bad thing about satellite that makes it unsuitable for many use cases will always remain to be latency, not speed or availability. 1.5 second ping is perfectly usable for web browsing, but it is painful for many other workflows."
I have Viasat Exede at my rural home that is unserved by other network products (no mobile signal, no CATV, no DSL).
Ping times are ~700ms and given my high reliance on SSH to do my work I was skeptical ... but it's not that bad.
I can't speak to gaming, etc., but for interactive login and things like skype/vonage it works OK.
- blazespin 11y agoWhat terminal are you using for SSH? Mosh? https://mosh.mit.edu/ https://mosh.mit.edu/
- rsync 11y agoNo, just plain old terminal.app in OSX. Or local console login on a FreeBSD server at home. Nothing special.
- fizzbatter 11y agoDefinitely check out Mosh. It's a (roughly! Don't yell at me:) layer ontop of SSH that uses the normal protocol for the initial connection, but after that it uses a UDP based protocol that is heavily tuned for poor network environments. That, ontop of a whole host of other reasons, is why it's amazing. Absolutely love it, and have been using it every day for over a year now. Despite frequent internet drops (yay, comcast) and laptop closures, i only reconnect to the server when i reboot my laptop (maybe once a month, at best). It's neato! edit: Note that my "server" work is my IDE (vim), and many panes of tmux, etcetc. Basically all my work. So it's used over 50h a week.