Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Home Satellite Internet: Country Living At Its Best

By Carl Langlois

Although most Americans live in urban areas or cities, there are still a large number living in rural areas or smaller communities. If you are one of them, you know how important it is to have high speed internet. It's now become possible with the introduction of home satellite internet service.

But this was not always possible because the expensive infrastructure to support DSL or cable is rarely provided in smaller centers or rural areas. But today for perhaps the first time, broadband internet is available even if you don't live in or near a city.

Signing up for satellite internet ensures that you won't have to suffer through slow dial up any longer. A satellite connection is much faster than dial up, allowing you to easily download and upload information from the World Wide Web.

Satellite internet is both fast and reliable. It's easy to get set up and is available to anyone living anywhere in the continental United States. Whether you live on a farm or ranch, on a mountainside, down in a valley, or in the middle of the woods, you can get high speed internet.

Satellite technology relies on access to a number of satellites that are in orbit around the earth. All you really need is a computer and a dish to access the satellite. You'll have to locate the dish where there is an unobstructed view of the southern sky for the technology to work.

If you were to compare internet via satellite to dial up, you would discover that there really is no comparison. Aside from the huge difference in speed, is the fact that with dial up you either have to get a second phone line to use strictly for the internet or risk tieing up your phone line. Neither of these is a good alternative.

And with dial up you will have to connect each time you want to go online. The waiting for the modem to get you connected is only the beginning of the waiting that you have in store of you are on dial up.

Everything takes a lot longer with dial up. You have to wait a long time for emails with attachments to get sent. You also have to wait for every graphic on a web page to load. It's kind of like watching paint dry after awhile. It's difficult to shop online unless you know exactly what you want to buy because it takes so long for pages to load.

But if you have a home satellite internet service, you don't have to wait to connect like you do with dial up. With satellite, you are connected automatically whenever your computer is on. That lets you start right in using your internet as soon as you sit down in front of your computer. In today's world it just makes sense to switch from a slow dial up service to a fast satellite internet service.

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