[COLUG] Satellite Web Proxy

[John Lydic]

  I used Direcway (prior to the name change) with both Windoze & Linux.  
The only time I saw a problem like this was on encrypted pages (https 
stuff like my bank).  Direcway (and I would assume Hughes) already runs 
an http proxy that is supposed to interpret the pages as they load, 
prefetch the stuff you will be looking for and sending it in the stream 
to the browser.  I never saw the turbo mode help that much (even on 
Windoze).  I would contact Hughes customer service and make sure their 
proxy is working.  I only contacted customer service a few times, but 
they were always helpful.  I now BTW have a local wireless ISP (thank 
god)  and haven't used the satellite (with those laws of physics and the 
"fair use" policy) for about 2 years now.  Also if anyone is looking for 
a system, I still have a Dish and a DW-6000 terminal modem ;~)

~jwl


Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> I use a satellite ISP (Hughes Net). DSL and cable are unavailable.
>
> One of the problems I have is that due to the time it takes the signal
> to get to and from the satellite, sometimes relatively small web pages
> take a long time to load.  Here's what I think is going on.
>
> A trip from my computer to the Hughes Net earth station takes about 1/4
> second (assuming radio travels 186,000 miles per second and the
> satellite's orbit is 22,500 miles).
>
> My web browser (Firefox on Ubuntu Dapper) requests a page.
>
> 1/4 second travel delay.
>
> Hughes Net gets the page (assume no time) and sends it to me.
>
> 1/4 second travel delay.
>
> My web browser notices that the page has an embedded item from another
> location and requests that.
>
> 1/4 second travel delay
>
> Hughs Net gets the requested item and sends it to me.
>
> 1/4 second travel delay
>
> On many commercial sites, an embedded item may in turn have another
> embedded item so the 1/2 delay repeats.  As an example, I went to the
> AT&T website and watched as it jumped back and forth between items from
> the AT&T website and the SBC website.  Pages took 30 seconds to load.  I
> suspect that without the satellite latency, the average user (high speed
> or even dial up) wouldn't have noticed all the jumping back and forth.
>
> Any way, I had an idea. I could run a program on a machine I use for web
> hosting. I could send a request to the program on that machine. That
> program could request all the pieces of the web page, bundle them
> together and then send the whole thing back to me in one chunk. That way
> there would be only one trip up and back to the satellite.
>
> Hughes Net offers something called Turbo Page, and I suspect that that
> is doing something similar, but it may not be working because I'm not
> using Windows and IE.
>
> Would something like this work?
>
> TIA,
> Mark
>
>
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