Re: Residential VSAT experiences?

[Dave Taht <dave.taht () gmail com>]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Michael Conlen <mike () conlen org> wrote:
> On Jun 22, 2015, at 4:39 PM, Nicholas Oas <nicholas.oas () 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



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