Eli5: How can we beam unlimited HD satellite TV to billions of homes but satellite internet is objectively terrible?

Question

So, my parents livr in an area where the only internet available is satellite. It sucks.

However, they also have satellite TV and can watch that no problem.

What’s the difference? Is it just a scale issue where TV has more money and resources compared to satellite internet companies?

In: Technology

Answer 1

I can yell at a room of 100 people and they all get the message clearly.

I cannot have 100 simultaneous conversations with those people without a super brain to switch around really fast and some kind of super tube for them all to speak to me clearly without drowning each other out.

Satellite TV is listening to the yeller; conversing simultaneously is the satellite internet. The second is much trickier and the end result is it’s really slow.