I read about mosh online and was curious to see what the deal was with it.
It wasn’t really clear to me what the difference was with using ssh directly, ssh works pretty well.
In their website they say that Mosh is a replacement for interactive SSH terminals. It’s more robust and responsive, especially over Wi-Fi, cellular, and long-distance links.
I used it to connect to my phone and found out that it’s actually a really different experience from using a plain ssh connection.
It look more like you’re connected locally to the machine than using a network, the perceived latency is way lower and the overall experience is much nicer.
Doing stuff with a terminal it’s much more enjoyable and stuff is usually more responsive.
The other nice thing is that it supports roaming and when you connect to a server and disconnect when the connection is restored you’re just in again, no need to reconnect again.
The installation was pretty smooth, just install the package on the server and client and connect to the server using the ssh credential or ssh key as usual.
I’m really liking it a lot and think will continue using it.