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?
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For TV, you send one signal over a wide area, and each house then tubes into segments of that signal for each channel.
For internet, the satellites are so far away that there is actual travel time involved both ways, that can be measured in human noticeable terms. On the internet, this travel time is called lag. Many services on the internet need very low lag to work correctly.
Also, the bandwidth, or pipe that information travels to and from is fairly restricted, so you are very limited as to how many people can use it at once for decent speeds. This is why services like starlonk and such are limited to millions of people worldwide even at full rollout.
Note, that’s not tens of millions, or even hundreds. It’s millions.
Maybe in the future it will be viable for more than super basic internet for a few. But that day is not this day.
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