[off-topic] Satellite latency problems

[William Kenworthy]

Give iinet a ring? - it may be they are using an accelerator on the link
which is stuffing things up - would think if they were it would work
properly though.

You could try setting up an openvpn tunnel to a cheap vpn host somewhere
and send your stuff through that ... you could even proxy the other end
of the tunnel using squid which may help even more.

On slow links running a local bind caching dns server and squid did
wonders during the dialup era.

BillK



On 27/06/13 21:55, Jim Householder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since migrating to iinet's NBN satellite service I have had a lot of
> problems with web pages not displaying properly as a result of the
> proper character encoding not being used.  The problem has occurred with
> several browsers, including Firefox, Konqueror, and IE8.
> 
> Most pages come good with a manual selection of encoding or a page
> refresh, but the Scientific American site just refused to work.
> 
> Today I took my computer to the Tambellup CRC and connected to their
> wired network.  Lo and Behold!  SciAm worked perfectly.
> 
> Ping time on my satellite connection is a minimum of 600ms.  I strongly
> suspect that page formatting is stuffed because the data needed is sent
> as a separate module and not received in time.
> 
> Short of changing back to the Westnet plan I had before which worked
> most of the time, can anything be done?
> 
> As a satellite user with such long ping time, it really takes a long
> time to load some pages due to the massive number of small bits and
> pieces sent.  Very annoying.  I know some bits need to be sent
> separately due to copyright issues, but surely pages can be delivered
> more efficiently.
> 
> Regards,
> Jim
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