[Gllug] ssh over GPRS -- slow and hangs alot or am I doing something wrong?

[Richard Jones]

I've started to use ssh over a GPRS connection to manage our servers
while on the road, and to be honest it's crappy.  Very slow to
connect.  Huge latency.  Often hangs for no apparent reason.  This
morning I had to carry out one urgent, but very trivial command line
job, and it took a good 15 minutes to complete, all caused by the
general slowness/hanginess.

It's also bloody expensive, although Merjis will reimburse me for
that.

So I guess a lot of people in this group must also use some form of
connection over GPRS to manage servers while they're on the road.  Is
this a general problem with GPRS or just my connection (I'm using
Orange)?  Is there some other service I can use -- I've got a 3G
phone, but I'm not really sure what that means, or whether or not my
data connection happens "over 3G".  Could it be that I'm using
Bluetooth between the laptop and the phone, ie. not a problem with
GPRS at all?  Above all, are there cheaper services available?

Rich.

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Richard Jones, CTO Merjis Ltd.
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