Well, it helps in that you need to initiate a connection much less often. Once you have a connected mosh session, it will transparently roam with you, across su

Well, it helps in that you need to initiate a connection much less often. Once you have a connected mosh session, it will transparently roam with you, across suspend/resume or changing networks, as long as you like. But yes, it can't help with the initial connection, which has to be bootstrapped over ssh.