On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Michael Conlen <m...@conlen.org> wrote: > > On Jun 22, 2015, at 4:39 PM, Nicholas Oas <nicholas....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Would anyone mind sharing with me their first-hand experiences with >> residential satellite internet? >> >> Right now I am evaluating HughesNet Gen4 and ViaSat Exede and I'm thinking >> specifically as a sysadmin who needs to use the uplink for work, not surf. > > My experience with geostationary was that latencies were around 720 ms in > practice. Telnet was painful and it turns out my brain didn’t like typing > things while I wasn’t getting instant feedback, though I understand there’s > software for that problem now.
Mosh makes latencies like this a lot less painful. Still painful. > Reliability was pretty good unless the satellite I was using happened to lose > it’s control processors. I was using Panamsat Galaxy 4 when it failed. I > don’t know how many angry phone calls we got about why we weren’t answering > our pages about the entire network being down before we got into the office. > In our case recovery involved getting access to another satellite and having > people re-aim the dishes. > > My only real recollection besides that was that the signal was bad > enough/long enough to induce TCP Silly Window Syndrome; but I can’t imagine > anyone’s running an OS that old anymore. > > — > Mike > -- Dave Täht worldwide bufferbloat report: http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/results/bufferbloat And: What will it take to vastly improve wifi for everyone? https://plus.google.com/u/0/explore/makewififast
