[181392] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Residential VSAT experiences?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Conlen)
Mon Jun 22 20:15:04 2015
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From: Michael Conlen <mike@conlen.org>
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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 20:10:12 -0400
To: Nicholas Oas <nicholas.oas@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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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?
>=20
> 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=92t like =
typing things while I wasn=92t getting instant feedback, though I =
understand there=92s software for that problem now.=20
Reliability was pretty good unless the satellite I was using happened to =
lose it=92s control processors. I was using Panamsat Galaxy 4 when it =
failed. I don=92t know how many angry phone calls we got about why we =
weren=92t 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.=20
My only real recollection besides that was that the signal was bad =
enough/long enough to induce TCP Silly Window Syndrome; but I can=92t =
imagine anyone=92s running an OS that old anymore.=20
=97
Mike
