<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">The VPN suggestion is probably a good one.<div><br></div><div>I have a fiber optic connection that was supposed to be the nirvana until I had tons of issues accessing even the Google Maps. The connection is stuffed up by the ISP firewall and people who don't know how to configure it. I bought an access to a VPN that does wonders for me. All the problems gone instantly. It won't solve your latency issue but at least show if the issue is on your ISP side.</div><div><br></div><div>Fred<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 6/27/13, William Kenworthy <i><billk@iinet.net.au></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au><br>Subject: Re: [off-topic] Satellite latency problems<br>To: off-topic@plug.org.au<br>Date: Thursday, June 27, 2013, 4:22
PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Give iinet a ring? - it may be they are using an accelerator on the link<br>which is stuffing things up - would think if they were it would work<br>properly though.<br><br>You could try setting up an openvpn tunnel to a cheap vpn host somewhere<br>and send your stuff through that ... you could even proxy the other end<br>of the tunnel using squid which may help even more.<br><br>On slow links running a local bind caching dns server and squid did<br>wonders during the dialup era.<br><br>BillK<br><br><br><br>On 27/06/13 21:55, Jim Householder wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>> <br>> Since migrating to iinet's NBN satellite service I have had a lot of<br>> problems with web pages not displaying properly as a result of the<br>> proper character encoding not being used. The problem has occurred with<br>> several browsers, including Firefox, Konqueror, and IE8.<br>> <br>> Most pages come good with a manual
selection of encoding or a page<br>> refresh, but the Scientific American site just refused to work.<br>> <br>> Today I took my computer to the Tambellup CRC and connected to their<br>> wired network. Lo and Behold! SciAm worked perfectly.<br>> <br>> Ping time on my satellite connection is a minimum of 600ms. I strongly<br>> suspect that page formatting is stuffed because the data needed is sent<br>> as a separate module and not received in time.<br>> <br>> Short of changing back to the Westnet plan I had before which worked<br>> most of the time, can anything be done?<br>> <br>> As a satellite user with such long ping time, it really takes a long<br>> time to load some pages due to the massive number of small bits and<br>> pieces sent. Very annoying. I know some bits need to be sent<br>> separately due to copyright issues, but surely pages can be delivered<br>> more
efficiently.<br>> <br>> Regards,<br>> Jim<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Off-topic mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:Off-topic@plug.org.au" href="/mc/compose?to=Off-topic@plug.org.au">Off-topic@plug.org.au</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/off-topic" target="_blank">http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/off-topic</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Off-topic mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Off-topic@plug.org.au" href="/mc/compose?to=Off-topic@plug.org.au">Off-topic@plug.org.au</a><br><a href="http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/off-topic" target="_blank">http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/off-topic</a><br></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></table>