Like how does it connect you to the internet compared to broadband/dsl ISP providers because I think I know that you’d run through their “hubs” to get there just curious on how using a satellite ISP works and why it wouldn’t be faster?
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But how does it work because it’s not a direct tether like with other ISP’s
> These consumer satellite dishes can get a bit funny, the signal is really powerful and nasty, and even stuff like birds flying through it are having a bad day (not kidding!)
This is not true. Your average home unit has a OutDoor Unit with a 2 or 4 watt amplifier on a 1 meter dish. At my previous employment, we had several 8 meter dishes with 1000w amps and we weren’t cooking birds.
Satellite internet works about the same as normal internet but with one major change. With normal cabled internet the computer sends a request to your internet service provider for a server that contains a website. Satellite internet takes the same information from the computer and converts it into a long range wireless frequency 11-15 GHz and transmits it 22,000 miles to a Satellite in Geostationary (same rotation as the earth) orbit and back 22,000 miles to your internet service provider which then can send the website data back again 22,000 miles to the satellite, then another 22,000 miles back to your home. This is why the ping is so high. SpaceX starlink will be a vast improvement since the satellites are low earth orbit at only 350 miles from earth
Satellite internet uses a dish connected to your modem to transmit to and receive from a geostationary communications satellite. The satellite then relays your traffic to a ground station that connects to the ground-based internet.
The newest generation use Ku band radio waves to transmit.
Satellite internet the consumer has a dish which sends and receives a signal from a satellite which relays it back to a ground station at an ISP.
These consumer satellite dishes can get a bit funny, the signal is really powerful and nasty, and even stuff like birds flying through it are having a bad day (not kidding!)
The service and speed is awful though. It’s only meant for cases where no other internet options are available such as very rural areas. Not only is the speed slow, ping very high, but you’re only allowed quite limited data each month. Again it’s really only meant as a last resort option, it is however, quite reliable, it works.
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