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Re: Experience with Satellite connections for DHIS2?

 

Great Nick, I should of course have thought of the Solomons immediately. It
would be good to have your advice on the specific models we are thinking of
for Liberia, I will send you some material off-list.

Knut

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Shurajit Dutta <shurajitdutta@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Knut.
>
> There's no cable in Solomons. Satellites are used in every province. We do
> have all sorts of problems running the analytics especially but aggregate
> data entry is mostly OK. Latency can be high, anywhere from 1200-1800ms on
> average depending on the province. Did you have some specific questions
> about this?
>
> Nick
> Hello list,
>
> Has anyone been using DHIS2 over a satellite connection, e.g. Thuraya?
>
> Bob told me this: "Satellite will be very high latency connection.  Dhis2
> is well tested for low bandwidth requirements.  I am not sure how much we
> have tested ajaxy stuff with high latency.  Of course it should work, but
> there may be some unexpected user experiences."
>
> Would be great to hear from anyone who has actually tried this.
>
> Thanks,
> Knut
>
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> Norway: +4791880522
> Skype: knutstar
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Knut Staring
Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
Liberia: +231 770 496 123 or +231 886 036 837
Norway: +4791880522
Skype: knutstar
http://dhis2.org

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