[Gllug] TCP acceleration over high latency sat links

Andy McGarty andy at mac1systems.com
Tue Nov 23 16:04:01 UTC 2004


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:43:44 +0000, Julian Somers <lists at bigpip.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 03:32:22PM -0000, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
>> Disclaimer: I have never done this, only read about it.
>>
>>   My understanding is that you have to have support on both ends of the
>> connection for this to work, usually by using something like a caching 
>> proxy
We ended up using http://www.mentat.com/skyx/skyx-gateway.html for a pipe 
to Sierra Leone.

Very easy to set up and makes the connection useable.  And also put a DNS 
cache on far end.

Andy
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