| Having a good internet connection is more | | | | a major change from the previous, dial-up era. |
| necessary today than ever. For most working | | | | And since satellite is so easy to install, and is |
| adults, having a reliable, fast internet connection is | | | | available pretty much anywhere in the country (or |
| just as important as having their own means of | | | | world, really) that has an unobstructed line of sight |
| transportation and their very own home. It's that | | | | with a certain part of the sky (the southern sky |
| success today really does depend on our ability to | | | | for those north of the equator like us in the US), |
| remain in touch and access information efficiently, | | | | everybody can get it, especially the people living |
| and the internet happens to be the most efficient | | | | way out in the middle of nowhere. Given the fact |
| way of all. Nonetheless, people that happen to live | | | | that cable networks are in relatively slow |
| outside the relatively small total area of the | | | | expansion, and will only cover a fraction of a |
| country that is equipped with cable networks | | | | percentage of the entire country for years and |
| usually lack high speed access to the web; unless, | | | | years to come anyways, many people will find |
| of course, they have a satellite broadband | | | | the option of satellite internet more and more |
| internet connection. Without one, people in remote | | | | attractive with the passage of time. Given the |
| and rural areas are condemned to an existence of | | | | significant advances in satellite technology over |
| dial-up download speeds, which is to say, hell. | | | | recent years-and the quick pace at which it |
| Having to use dial-up to run a home office of any | | | | continues to improve-there is ever reason to be |
| sort, or even to simply use the net for | | | | comfortable with a satellite connection. |
| entertainment purposes, is a frustrating | | | | In fact, the major problems that turned a lot of |
| experience, and will likely be a total failure for | | | | people off to satellite internet have been virtually |
| people that need to use the internet intensively, | | | | completely surmounted: signal latency (the delay |
| downloading and uploading a lot of information | | | | between the signal leaving one terminus and |
| every day. The difference in the speed is | | | | arriving at the other) has been brought down to |
| astounding, with satellite internet being more than | | | | levels that are totally within the realm of even the |
| 50 times faster; the relatively few kilobytes that | | | | most stringent expectations. Furthermore, rain |
| a regular modem can download per second are | | | | fade and cloud interference have been overcome |
| dwarfed by the up to three megabytes a second | | | | in large measure due to adaptations in which |
| that you'll get via satellite. And with the ability to | | | | frequencies are used to relay the signal, a |
| set up a local network with your satellite | | | | measure that has proven to be incredibly |
| connection, you can be sharing that broadband | | | | effective. All of which means that satellite internet |
| access with several employees or family | | | | is more than reliable enough to propel you (no |
| members. That would give any person or | | | | matter where you are) to new heights of |
| business a significant competitive edge, and mark | | | | success. |