Slow SSH on Home Network

February 24, 2014 5.5k views
nick.latocha
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nick.latocha
I'm having issues connecting to my droplet via SSH using my home network. I'm using OSX and the terminal to connect to the server. Often hangs - or when does connect it's extremely slow. However if I connect using my phone and an ssh client over 4G I get good speeds. I read this could be a dns issue so I updated my dns to google - but still the same connection issues. Anyone got any ideas?
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gparent February 24, 2014
Is the connection handshake slow or is it the connection once completed that is slow?
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nick.latocha February 24, 2014
Both. I often cannot even connect because it times out.
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jestewart.11 February 25, 2014
I am having the same exact issue.
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ricardo.parraga February 26, 2014
You can debug the SSH connections with your 'ssh' client with these 3 debug modes:
a. 'ssh -v user@IP' - Returns debugging at 'debug1' level
b. 'ssh -vv user@IP' - Returns debugging at 'debug2' level
c. 'ssh -vvv user@IP' - Returns debugging at 'debug3' level

Try each debuging mode one at a time. You'll see which step in the SSH connection takes time or fail.
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nick.latocha February 27, 2014
Found out this was a router issue. Replaced the router last night and works perfectly.

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