| When choosing who to get one's internet service | | | | up from a dial-up modem, the difference is |
| from, many people make the error of falling into | | | | practically impossible to fathom, as hours and |
| certain obsolete myths of the internet industry | | | | hours of waiting will be boiled down to just a few |
| that, though they may have been useful and valid | | | | seconds of waiting-a difference that really means |
| a few years ago, today only serve to confuse | | | | a lot, especially for serious, professional users. |
| people and spread false conclusions about who is | | | | Furthermore, satellite internet is just about always |
| really offering the best service possible. Many | | | | offered as a digital, and not analog, service-it's |
| people still think, for example, that cable is the | | | | hard to find a satellite provider that would be the |
| only viable option for a superior service; how | | | | exception to this rule. On the other hand, |
| untrue this is. Others yet think that satellite | | | | however, cable internet connections are still |
| internet is only good as a last recourse, meant for | | | | frequently analog, and the slow efforts of cable |
| those hailing from very far afield and without the | | | | companies to change this reality have been |
| option of a cable connection; even more untrue! | | | | causing countless customers interruptions in their |
| The reality is that cable has lost its exclusiveness | | | | service for many, many years now. As we are |
| as a superior internet provider, and today satellite | | | | close to entering the second decade of the 21st |
| is supplanting cable's previous dominance in a | | | | century, doesn't it seem like it is high time for all |
| variety of fields, including but not limited to | | | | internet connections to be digital already?! |
| connection speeds, signal quality (that is, digital vs. | | | | Then, there is the fact that satellite technology |
| analog), and customer service. Whereas cable has | | | | has made very significant advances in reducing |
| been resting on its laurels for many years now, | | | | signal latency-the delay between a signal being |
| satellite internet providers have been making | | | | emitted by a geostationary satellite floating |
| earnest efforts to improve the quality of their | | | | thousands and thousands of miles high in the sky |
| service, increasing download speeds, universalizing | | | | and the same signal being received by the satellite |
| digital connections, reducing signal latency, and | | | | dish perched on top of the customer's home. |
| spreading their tentacles out to corners of the | | | | Whereas previously this delay was impeding the |
| map that cable will never even be able to dream | | | | usability of satellite internet connections, today the |
| of reaching. | | | | delay is so incredibly imperceptible and minuscule |
| Today, satellite internet connections can reach | | | | that not even the most demanding of customers |
| speeds of up to 3mbps or more, which | | | | will be able to lodge a complaint as a result of it. |
| effectively puts this method of connecting to the | | | | All of these incredible aspects of satellite |
| web on par with cable (in this particular regard; it | | | | technology help make satellite connections to the |
| clearly exceeds cable in many other aspects, as | | | | web second to none. |
| will be discussed subsequently). If you are moving | | | | |