You may also want to look into mosh [1] as it will handle dropouts and continue where ssh would just fail on its own. Also has local echo for points of high latency.
Was a real life saver on some of the terrible sat connections of yesteryear.
Was a real life saver on some of the terrible sat connections of yesteryear.
mosh does require UDP ports, though, which might be problematic with some firewalls or proxies.