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How good is it over crappy connection over SSH?
by WesolyKubeczek 5y ago
How good is it over crappy connection over SSH?
- ahofmann 5y agoI have no idea, but I think it could be better than a bloated website over a crappy connection. Maybe you should try and tell us how it went?
- throwanem 5y agoWhy would you assume that? Most websites bloated or otherwise don't need to keep a socket open 100% of the time to function at all, and I strongly suspect most sites that do use websockets also pass considerably less over the wire in absolute terms than this does when it's rendering stuff like those fancy progress bars.
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- perlgeek 5y agoIf you have a crappy connection, you should really use mosh (https://mosh.org/ https://mosh.org/) instead of SSH. My own experience is that text user interfaces over mosh work far better than web applications when on a crappy connection. My experience isn't specifically with textualized-based applications though (one is irssi, the terminal IRC client, and some with proprietary applications from $work).
- WesolyKubeczek 5y agoI meant “crappy” in the sense of low bandwidth, not unreliable. Those sidebar animations come with a comparative lot of data being fed into the terminal. Look at how sparing vim is with screen updates. I don’t know if it was intentional, but works out nicely, and makes it a godsend if what you have is 3G which is somehow worse than EDGE has been 15 years ago. I have a hunch this TUI would struggle in these circumstances.