[181399] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Residential VSAT experiences?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Taht)
Tue Jun 23 01:14:22 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <9AB1D8A3-AA0E-4DAF-92D1-054D5A121EC9@conlen.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 22:14:19 -0700
From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: Michael Conlen <mike@conlen.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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 thinki=
ng
>> specifically as a sysadmin who needs to use the uplink for work, not sur=
f.
>
> My experience with geostationary was that latencies were around 720 ms in=
practice. Telnet was painful and it turns out my brain didn=E2=80=99t like=
typing things while I wasn=E2=80=99t getting instant feedback, though I un=
derstand there=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99s control processors. I was using Panamsat Galaxy 4 when it=
failed. I don=E2=80=99t know how many angry phone calls we got about why w=
e weren=E2=80=99t answering our pages about the entire network being down b=
efore 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=E2=80=99t imagi=
ne anyone=E2=80=99s running an OS that old anymore.
>
> =E2=80=94
> Mike
>
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