| Americans are spending an increasing amount of time | | | | Satellite Internet connections speed up online |
| using the Internet, whether it's for business, school, | | | | shopping, giving you access to those online stores |
| or just plain surfing for fun. If you have a dialup | | | | you could never easily visit before. You can live on a |
| Internet connection, you know that nothing | | | | ranch in rural Montana and shop in the most upscale |
| frustrates a person more than waiting... and waiting... | | | | boutiques in New York City, all through the power of |
| and waiting for a web page to download, only to find | | | | your satellite Internet connection. |
| out you didn't want to be there in the first place. | | | | Some people are critical of satellite Internet |
| Dialup Internet connections can't even be compared | | | | technology, saying that there's an unacceptable delay |
| with satellite Internet technology. The top speed for | | | | in the signal because it has to be beamed out into |
| dialup is around 56 kilobytes per second - if you're | | | | space to the satellite, and then sent back to your |
| very lucky. Just because you have a 56 kps modem | | | | computer. There's a signal delay in any |
| doesn't mean the signal traveling to it is going to be | | | | telecommunications process, whether it's voice, |
| 56 kps. The slow speed for satellite Internet is 1,000 | | | | video, or Internet. The speed of light delays the |
| kilobytes per second. | | | | satellite Internet signal by about 500 milliseconds. |
| Once you've experienced high-speed satellite Internet | | | | That's not very long, unless you're performing brain |
| connectivity, you'll ask yourself why you didn't get | | | | surgery by remote Internet connection. |
| this option sooner. You'll get to see all the photos | | | | For 99 percent of home users, you'll never even |
| your friends and family attach to emails almost | | | | notice that there's this 500 millisecond delay in the |
| instantly. Watching online videos is a lot more fun | | | | transmission signal. Don't let worrying about a tiny |
| when there are fewer delays in the transmission. Plus, | | | | latency keep you from experiencing the speed and |
| you'll know much sooner if that link you clicked on | | | | convenience of satellite Internet connectivity. |
| contains useful information, since it takes so much | | | | If you run a small business and use the Internet, |
| time to view some web pages by dialup. | | | | satellite Internet connectivity will be just fine for you, |
| Shopping online allows you to browse multiple sites | | | | too. Satellite Internet and satellite television are not |
| and categories to find the best bargains and highest | | | | the same thing, so you don't need to run satellite TV |
| quality goods. Waiting for 150 product pictures and | | | | into your business in order to get the cutting edge, |
| descriptions to download is frustrating, and could cost | | | | super-fast satellite Internet. |
| you money if you don't comparison shop. | | | | |