Viasat satellite internet operates using the following steps:
1. You click on your favorite website using your laptop or mobile device. Your request goes to your Viasat modem, then through a short cable to the dish outside your home.
2. The dish installed at your home beams your request up to our satellite.
3. Our satellite sends your website request down to a gateway station connected to our ground network.
4. The station relays your request to your favorite website.
5. The website delivers the information you requested back to the station, which sends it up to our satellite to be sent directly to you.
Read our blog post titled [How it Works: The technology behind satellite internet](http://news.caracibikes.com/blog/satellite-internet/how-it-works-the-technology-behind-satellite-internet).