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It's terrific for making high latency connections feel like a normal one, roaming between WiFi, cellular, and different VPNs without skipping a beat. Even in 2025 it is very useful.
These days i quite like using shpool: https://github.com/shell-pool/shpool I used to use mosh, tmux before but always got annoyed how they broke scrolling , searching etc.. Especially when yakuake already provides half the functionality i used to rely on tmux for..
Note: Mosh does not natively support agent forwarding similar to ssh. Creator of Mosh explained why in this comment https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/120#issuecomment...
I used to use this but ran into too many small issues that ended up outweighing the benefit compared to a plain-old ssh connection. Personally, I'm hoping for a QUIC-based alternative that reaps the benefits of being able to change IP addresses and recover from intermittent connection loss without any of the typing prediction stuff from mosh.
Funny sidenote: The mobile client for "Magic: the Gathering - Arena" does not even support "roaming" for your phones connection: If you for example turn off wifi during a match, it looses (and can not reestablish) the full connection even though your phone easily switches to mobile data.
Interesting that it can’t reestablish the connection, as the application level protocol should support it just fine. The client should notice the GRE (game rules engine) TCP socket is broken, and reset everything. When you reconnect, the front door service should notify you to a GRE session still in progress, and the client should be able to rejoin that. At least, that’s how it works on desktop.
Fond memories of moshing while ssh'ing into remote machines and tethering off my phone on the Caltrain. Great product
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Can you tell us why you made the switch?
Sure. I guess caveat I haven't used Mosh in a while, so maybe things have changed. Mosh paints the screen, meaning no native scrollback. You have to use a multiplexer like tmux to get it. But ET has native scrollback. This is the biggest one for me. Couple years ago I was on a more limited network that constrained usage of UDP which Mosh uses. ET uses TCP. Mosh buffers inputs locally first which gives it the appearan…
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