Why can satellite television service easily play high quality movies/shows, while satellite internet service buffers videos constantly even in low quality?

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Why can satellite television service easily play high quality movies/shows, while satellite internet service buffers videos constantly even in low quality?

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Satellite TV is one-way. It beams content out, and doesn’t care one bit whether anyone is receiving it.

Satellite internet requires 2-way communication, which means you have to exchange a bunch of signals with a satellite 35,000km away, and that takes some time.

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