, rural residents will be pleased to know that a satellite connection could give them access to speeds rising above 3 or 4 Mbpswhich is the equivalent of 50-times the speed their dial-up connection can give them. Those are the kinds of speeds that businesses more than individual, private users need, and that means the opportunity to use the internet for more than personal entertainment purposes. Then, there is also the fact that any satellite internet connection can be turned into the access point for multiple computers or even mobile devices through the creation of a wireless local area network, contrary to what many people think about one satellite dish connecting only one machine at a time. There are many more juicy details that we don't have time to mention here, all of which goes to show that satellite internet is changing rural living, and for the better!