# Mosh 61 Hacker News commenters recommended Mosh and 10 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 12 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** Mosh keeps a remote terminal session alive through sleep, roaming and dropped connections, with less lag on slow links. Main caveats: no scrollback and no tunneling or X11 forwarding. ## Why people recommend it - Keeps session across sleep, roaming and drops (7 comments): "mosh, which makes the session truly unkillable and makes sure it will recover when the connection comes back, albeit I ran into some annoying limitations with text scrollback" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855858)) "The fact that you can't resume a TCP connection from a different IP address, the way you can with a Mosh connection" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45940219)) "Mosh on server and client keeps the SSH connection going during suspension or network drops" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46644833)) - Works on slow or lossy connections (6 comments): "I tried Mosh+Tmux with 2.7 KBPS (and less) when I was using a data plan. It worked perfectly fine, no delay or barely noticeable." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876251)) "Mosh has a great property that it buffers everything locally so there's no lag even if your connection sucks." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47158864)) "If you regularly have to deal with hung connections or slow/unreliable links, I suggest trying out mosh." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335198)) - Pairs well with tmux and Tailscale (6 comments): "Previously I was using tmux and mosh and Nebula, and that worked really great for reconnecting" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47211532)) "gave me the incentive I needed to set up Tailscale & Mosh, and there's no going back" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247635)) "Tailscale + mosh + tmux is a really nice way to connect to a workstation" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927446)) - Uses less bandwidth than SSH (2 comments): "I tried Mosh+Tmux with 2.7 KBPS (and less) when I was using a data plan. It worked perfectly fine, no delay or barely noticeable." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876251)) "It supports these kind of cuts and it will reconnect seamlessly. It will use far less bandwidth too." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47332654)) ## What people warn about - No scrollback in terminal (2 comments): "mosh, which makes the session truly unkillable and makes sure it will recover when the connection comes back, albeit I ran into some annoying limitations with text scrollback" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855858)) "there is no scrollback, which is the most-upvoted open issue on the project since 2012" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50080847)) - Hard to set up (4 comments): "I wasn't able to get it set up the last time I tried... ran into a bunch of issues." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47155032)) "Mosh is also extra annoying because it depends on ssh and libcrypto stuff" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109234)) "mosh required some port forwarding dance" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46492436)) - No tunneling or X11 forwarding (2 comments): "Mosh unfortunately has shortcomings though - mainly, it lacks tunneling ability." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48483013)) "But not a solution since it does not support X11 forwarding." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46644874)) - Project seen as abandoned (2 comments): "Something that wasn't even on the radar back when they closed this ticket." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180974)) "Mosh is abandoned, unfortunately." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106706)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [SSH](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ssh.md): 57 recommend - [Termius](https://hackerapproved.com/p/termius.md): 33 recommend - [Moshi SSH and Mosh terminal for iOS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/moshi.md): 16 recommend - [Echo SSH and mosh client for iOS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/echo-ios-ssh-and-mosh-client.md): 14 recommend - [JuiceSSH](https://hackerapproved.com/p/juicessh.md): 12 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Mosh", https://hackerapproved.com/p/mosh/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).