Airport extreme: Invalid Argument errors over satellite connection

Question 1: Have you observed problems with Apple equipment getting high error rates over high latency connections such as satellite connections?
Question 2: Do you know of any reason why Apple equipment is more likely to exhibit this behaviour?
We have a shack in the country that has a 10Mb/sec satellite internet service. The satellite in question is the Australian NBN service which I believe uses an Optus satellite.
We get frustratingly large numbers of errors from Safari: "Safari can't open the page <insert random url here> The operation could not be completed. Invalid argument."
The message in the browser is always the same. It can take half-a-dozen retries to get a page to display. On average, aroiund 30% of connection attempts yield this error. It seems to be load dependent, and at the moment it is happening less often - maybe one in 10 requests are failing. It is currently 2 Jan, around midday and most Australians near the coast will be at the beach, and those inland have 50 degree temperatures predicted so they will be wallowing in the mud-hole that was once the dam, so I expect the satellite load is rather low.
My ISP says they have around a dozen customers reporting this problem and they all use Apple gear.
Observations:
I was able to open a VPN connection to one of my customers (after several attempts) and the VPN connection worked flawlessly for the duration of hte session which was several hours. Meanwhile, the mrs was cussin' away about invalid argument errors.
Once a page starts loading, it generally finishes. This seems to be independent of the level of complexity. So once a page gets going, it keeps going. Selecting a link from it, however, will likely result in another error.
Pings are returning in around 1 second.
Transfer rate is good - close to the promised 10Mbit/sec. Response time, of course, is aweful compared to a wired or 3G connection. However it is acceptable provided a response is actually received.
Gear is: A couple of netgear routers in point to point mode bridging to the Airport Extreme in the house which is the main router. There are a couple of Airport expresses about the place doing other stuff. Terminal equipment includes iPads x 2, macBooks x 2, iPhones x 2. Everything gets a master reset periodically when the power goes off, and the problem persists. All devices experience the problem.
Thank you for your help

jone1101 wrote:
I have had my airport extreme for over a year and comcast even longer than that. For some reason my airport now says it has a invalid ip address. I plugged my modem directly into my imac and the internet connection is fine. I have power cycled everything multiple times with the same result. I even reset my airport extreme and created a new network. Nothing is working please help!
Does your cable modem have any sort of battery backup that would prevent it from resetting fully during a power cycle?

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