Everyone in Singapore is familiar with a telephone and its usage. So, the connections to the Internet means we have to connect to a communications satellite, many of them are really established for ships at sea. We have to know where the satellite is located otherwise, we get NO connections. After pointing the antenna to the relevant satellite, we power up the modem unit and plug its connector into the computer. Only then we can start sending and receiving emails.
Patience is a virtue here.
These can be caused by heavy clouds or snowfalls in the direction of the antenna. Sometimes, the reasons are unknown. Digital photos have to processed by Adobe Photoshop before transmission - to keep its size down. Movies have to edited by Final Cut Pro and compressed using QuickTime before we can even talk of sending it back to Singapore by M4. If you think this is fun, think again.