Re: [Dhis2-users] Experience with Satellite connections for DHIS2?

2015-03-24 Thread Steven Uggowitzer
In reference to a discussion thread in this forum from back in November 2014 (below), this might be useful for DHIS2 testing: Facebook has released an open source application called Augmented Traffic Control that can simulate the connectivity of a cell phone accessing an app over a 2G, Edge, 3G,

Re: [Dhis2-users] Experience with Satellite connections for DHIS2?

2014-11-18 Thread Steven Uggowitzer
There are a variety of possibilities available to virtually simulate communications links with limited bandwidth, high latency and packet loss. For my own needs, I built a WIFI access point with custom firmware based on OpenWRT implementing KauNet: http://www.kau.se/en/kaunet

Re: [Dhis2-users] Experience with Satellite connections for DHIS2?

2014-11-16 Thread Shurajit Dutta
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

Re: [Dhis2-users] Experience with Satellite connections for DHIS2?

2014-11-16 Thread Knut Staring
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 shurajitdu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi