I agree, although using mosh over SSH somewhat mitigates that.

The problem is that, in my experience with Koen and his hired domestic VPS,
the lag is almost unbearable compared to communicating with a server
abroad. It might just be that that particular company is shite at what they
do, but it seems that with Ugandan VPSes, there are two potential
bottlenecks instead of just one as it should be.
On 26 Feb 2013 11:26, "Reinier Battenberg" <
[email protected]> wrote:

> **
>
>
>
> it *is* more comfortably to type on a command prompt with a latency of
> less than 20ms, instead of more than 300 though.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tuesday 26 February 2013 11:21:08 Benjamin Tayehanpour wrote:
>
> Another option would be to buy computing time abroad, if domesticity isn't
> a requirement.
>
> On 26 Feb 2013 11:16, "Simon Vass" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think I would rephrase that but essentially yes.
>
>
> On 26/02/13 13:14, Reinier Battenberg wrote:
>
> very true, simon. At the moment the Datanet offer for local traffic is not
> really
> working out. While datanet is peering with the UIXP, no other members at
> the
> UIXP are peering with datanet. You'll get your keystrokes on MTN going via
> london into your VPS.
>
> Rather take another option, while you can.
>
> rgds.
> reinier
>
>
> On Tuesday 26 February 2013 13:11:53 Simon Vass wrote:
>
> As do Datanet, but you might have a hard time getting to them over the
> IX ;-)
>
> On 26/02/13 13:07, Reinier Battenberg wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> You can try Roke Telkom, they lease out VPS's.
>
> You can mail:
> James Byaruhanga <[email protected]>
>
> rgds,
>
> Reinier
>
> On Tuesday 26 February 2013 13:05:05 Mike Epps wrote:
>
> Hello guys,
> I was wondering if any one out there knows of any company in Uganda
> that deals shell accounts, that is Linux accounts that I can SSH into
> and install personal software.
>
> thanks in advance
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