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A satellite internet provider is a business that allows its clients to access the internet through a satellite dish. Typically, a satellite internet provider will offer a kind of internet access known as satellite broadband.

To access satellite broadband, an internet user must have a satellite dish installed on top of their home. Internet services must also be paid for from a satellite internet provider on a monthly basis as is the case with most kinds of internet access. Due to the technology involving the use of a satellite dish, this internet access often comes packaged with Satellite Television.

Satellite broadband works by sending signals up into space where they will be received by an orbiting satellite. The signals will then be sent back down from the satellite to the actual internet provider on the ground. Signals can then be sent back up from the provider to the satellite. They will then be sent down again to the internet subscriber’s satellite dish whenever that subscriber is receiving data over the internet.

Satellite internet typically has a download speed of two megabytes per second and an upload speed of one megabyte per second. This is certainly better than the now rather archaic dial-up internet providers who can only provide download speeds of fifty six kilobytes per second. However, these speeds are still inferior to other kinds of internet access available in the market. DSL internet, for instance, can have a download speed of three megabytes per second.

The down sides to satellite based broadband internet connections don’t end there however. Satellite broadband is also famous for “lagging.” These lag times are a result of the limits of the current technology. Whenever an internet signal is sent up to an orbiting satellite, it must travel over twenty thousand miles through space. It must then travel another twenty thousand miles down to the internet service provider. For this reason, lag-times can be an annoying result of using this kind of internet. It will for one not operate well with online applications that demand quick real time interaction.

Satellite internet also tends to be much more expensive than other forms of internet access available on the market. For these reasons, satellite internet is only suggested when no other means of accessing the internet are available.

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