| For most Americans, the internet is more than | | | | only option--and also in all major metropolitan |
| just something to occasionally use. it is quickly | | | | areas. And this means big changes for the way |
| becoming a major source of information, | | | | your time is spent online. |
| communication, and also entertainment. And | | | | Think of the amount of time you usually spend |
| nowhere is this more clear than in the change in | | | | waiting just to check your email or your favorite |
| people's schedules to accommodate time online. It | | | | websites. Chance are, it is greatly limited by your |
| has been observed that more and more people | | | | connection speed, if it happens to be slow. Once |
| are spending a majority of their time online, as | | | | you make the upgrade to a reliable and secure |
| opposed to watching television or heading to the | | | | satellite internet connection, you can change the |
| movies. And the world wide web also has | | | | ways you spend your day. Email, including |
| cemented its place in the business world. If you | | | | downloading and uploading attachments, takes |
| don't have an email or conduct any sort of | | | | mere seconds. Checking something like Facebook |
| business online, you are truly in a rare and unique | | | | or Myspace, complete with live feeds, now runs |
| industry. | | | | at the speed it would if you were plugged into |
| The trouble is that some people, because of | | | | ethernet. This means more time to explore the |
| where they happen to live, do not have access to | | | | web, less time spent reloading or trying to send |
| the faster methods of getting online. And the | | | | or receive files without success, and a generally |
| internet works a lot differently when you're | | | | larger sense of accomplishment. |
| dealing with dial-up rather than a satellite internet | | | | But by far the most important development you |
| connection. Your typical internet schedule with | | | | will notice in your internet schedule once you |
| dial-up involves a whole lot more time spent | | | | make the switch to a dish is more time away |
| waiting for pages to load, refreshing them, and a | | | | from the computer. Even if you have a bunch of |
| general overall sense of frustration at the internet | | | | websites that you enjoy checking at the beginning |
| not doing what you tell it to. And this is not the | | | | of the day, or if you happen to be freelancing |
| fault of your computer or of the website you | | | | remotely, you will save yourself enough time with |
| want to visit. It is merely because dial-up is not | | | | the mechanics of sending and receiving data to do |
| built to handle today's internet. | | | | something else. And ultimately, this is the overall |
| But all of the people who live just a bit too far | | | | purpose of the internet. The point is not to stare |
| for their local internet service providers to reach | | | | at a screen waiting for hours, but rather, to do |
| them now have a new option, and it definitely | | | | what you need to do and then get on with your |
| changes the way your daily internet schedule | | | | day. And finally, you can see more websites than |
| works. With satellite internet, the speed of | | | | ever before, but without wasting a bunch of time |
| broadband is now available without a hassle to | | | | waiting on them to work at the speed they are |
| anyone who is living somewhere that dial-up is the | | | | supposed to. |