There's not a lot of problems, I download data quickly, and the service is consistent, which is what I like best about it. Murello has the dish connected to her personal desktop PC, and a DSL-equipped laptop to access the network at her employer, PricewaterhouseCoopers. Look at Latin America or China or India, with little in the way of built-out infrastructure. The business model changes dramatically when you see this as not just a domestic product. Even with higher prices than cable or DSL, Goodman forecasts satellite providers will cash in on a 15 percent to 25 percent share of the broadband market.
Signals travel from a user's PC through a rooftop dish designed to send such data.
The information is received by the satellite, and then relayed to a Net server in a terrestrial station. The return send path reverses the process. And StarBand is no bargain. For many customers, even more relevant than pricing are the numbers on data-transfer rates. In terms of pure delivery speed, satellite connections are a few ticks behind DSL and cable modems.