[off-topic] Satellite latency problems

[Bruce M. Axtens]

On 27/06/2013 9:55 PM, 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?
Is using Opera browser in Turbo mode a possibility?

Kind regards,
Bruce