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| 0.08in } --> | | | | Using dial-up internet, you had a reliable connection to |
| Most people in metropolitan and suburban areas have | | | | the internet; however, its slow speeds prevented |
| already made the switch from dial-up internet to | | | | you from fully benefiting from all that the internet |
| broadband internet connection. In these areas, dial-up | | | | has to offer. Many new conveniences and novelties |
| internet has become somewhat a relic of the past; | | | | of the internet require a much higher data transfer |
| however, in more rural areas, it continues to be the | | | | speed than what dial-up internet has to offer. |
| main form of internet connection that connects | | | | Consequently, those who rely on a dial-up internet |
| people to the worldwide web. While its speeds | | | | connection often grow accustomed to the slow |
| remain relatively slow, it has served as the only viable | | | | speeds and forgo all the new resources of the |
| alternative in these areas, until now with the arrival of | | | | internet. With satellite broadband internet, you can |
| satellite internet. | | | | perform much more than simply checking your email, |
| | | | | visit a few websites, or send a few Facebook |
| Previously, in rural areas, broadband quality internet | | | | messages. With this high speed internet connection, |
| connection like cable or DSL services were largely | | | | you can stream videos from sites like YouTube with |
| absent. Because of the high costs of infrastructure in | | | | much more ease. No longer do you have to gauge |
| these areas, it did not prove profitable for broadband | | | | whether the time it will take to load a video would |
| service providers. The sparse population in these | | | | be worth the actual content itself. You can watch |
| areas meant that less people were able to enjoy the | | | | the video almost immediately as it streams directly |
| infrastructure established and thus, in rural areas, | | | | onto your computer. Another benefit of the high |
| most service providers did not offer broadband | | | | speed internet connection is that you can now |
| internet coverage. However, satellite internet does | | | | participate in the online gaming community that your |
| not require this physical infrastructure in order for | | | | urban counterparts have been enjoying this whole |
| people to enjoy high speed internet. This technology | | | | time. Because most online games require much higher |
| was created primarily for communications purposes in | | | | speeds than what dial-up has to offer, most people |
| the past for military usage. It was geared towards | | | | could not enjoy these games in rural areas that |
| keeping people connected in war torn countries and | | | | lacked high speed internet. In addition, satellite |
| areas afflicted by civil war and other devastating | | | | internet works at a speed where you can enjoy |
| catastrophes. Because it relies on the signal received | | | | video chatting capabilities. Now, you can interact |
| by satellites orbiting space rather than a physical | | | | face-to-face as you catch up with your friends, |
| infrastructure to receive internet connection, you can | | | | family, and other loved ones online. No longer do you |
| access the worldwide web through this technology | | | | need to only rely on emails or other text-based |
| from virtually anywhere in the world. Now, in rural | | | | communications, you can see their smiling faces as |
| areas, there is a high speed alternative to dial-up | | | | you chat with them! |
| internet. | | | | |