Though the technology may be complex, the theory is simple. When you click on your favorite website using your laptop or mobile device, a request goes to your Viasat modem, which conveys it to the satellite dish installed outside your home with a view of the sky. The request is conveyed by the dish to the Viasat satellite that is in a geosynchronous (stationary with respect to the Earth) orbit. The request gets transmitted to the Viasat Earth station connected to our ground network which conveys the request to the website. The website responds and sends the requested information back to the ground network which conveys it to your device via the same route, in reverse.