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##Why?
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##Why?
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I'm travelling around the world and sometimes I don't have very good Internet. If all I have is a 3kbps connection
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I'm travelling around the world and sometimes I don't have very good Internet. If all I have is a 3kbps connection
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tethered from my phone then it's good to SSH into my server and browse the web through [elinks](http://www.xteddy.org/elinks/).
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tethered from my phone then it's good to SSH into my server and browse the web through [elinks](http://www.xteddy.org/elinks/).
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That way my server downloads the web pages and uses the limited bandwidth of my SSH connection to display the result. But
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That way my _server_ downloads the web pages and uses the limited bandwidth of my SSH connection to display the result. But
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it lacks JS support and all that other modern HTML5 goodness. Texttop is simply a way to have the power of a remote
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it lacks JS support and all that other modern HTML5 goodness. Texttop is simply a way to have the power of a remote
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server running a desktop, but interfaced through the simplicity of a terminal and very low bandwidth.
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server running a desktop, but interfaced through the simplicity of a terminal and very low bandwidth.
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Why not VNC? Well VNC is certainly one solution but it doesn't quite have the same ability to deal with extremely bad
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Why not VNC? Well VNC is certainly one solution but it doesn't quite have the same ability to deal with extremely bad
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Internet. Texttop uses MoSH to further reduce the bandwidth and stability of the connection. Mosh offers features like
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Internet. Texttop uses MoSH to further reduce the bandwidth and stability requirements of the connection. Mosh offers features like
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automatic reconnection of dropped connections and diff-only screen updates. Also, other than SSH or MoSH, Texttop doesn't
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automatic reconnection of dropped connections and diff-only screen updates. Also, other than SSH or MoSH, Texttop doesn't
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require a client like VNC. But of course another big reason for Texttop is that it's just very cool geekery.
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require a client like VNC. But of course another big reason for Texttop is that it's just very cool geekery.
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tombh/texttop sh
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tombh/texttop sh
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Note that this assumes you already have SSH setup on your server and that you have your public key there. Password
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Note that this assumes you already have SSH setup on your server and that you have your public key there. Password
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logins work fine too.
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logins work fine too. The `60010-60020` port range is for MoSH.
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Then on your local machine:
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Then on your local machine:
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```
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```
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MoSH is available through most system pacakge managers. SSH can be used exactly the same, just replace `mosh` with `ssh`.
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MoSH is available through most system pacakge managers. SSH can be used exactly the same, just replace `mosh` with `ssh`.
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`user@yourserver` is the normal URI you would use to connect via SSH.
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`user@yourserver` is the normal URI you would use to connect via SSH.
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**Exiting**
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**Exiting**
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At the moment the only way to exit is with MoSH's `CTRL+^ .` or SSH's `ENTER ~ .`
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At the moment the only way to exit is with MoSH's `CTRL+^ .` or SSH's `ENTER ~ .`
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##Interaction
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##Interaction
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