Bruce writes:

Satellite suffers from the geosynchronous latency of several
seconds. Usually not a big thing but try running an ssh session to
see what frustration really is!

It's actually about 500 milliseconds for a single packet going one
way. But with the TCP connections, and the handshakes, it takes about
2 seconds for a new connection to complete and the file download to
ramp up to full speed.

I have not tried ssh over a sat link. Yeah - I bet it sucks royally.
Some browsers can be tuned to allow more simultaneous connections.
That might help.

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