subject: Providing Rural Households with High Speed Satellite Internet [print this page] With the higher speeds at which satellite internet operates, much more can be achieved than relying on the dial-up internet many have grown so accustomed to. Instead of selectively choosing which photos to load and view, they can simply flip through the entire album or set of photographs of their friends' trip to the Bahamas. Rather than simply text chatting on AOL instant messenger, they can also enjoy video chatting on Skype with their friends studying abroad in Europe or their grandparents living in another part of the country. Also, they can enjoy watching television shows and movies directly from the internet and the computer. Before, loading a video often took a while and one had to gauge whether the video would be worth the time and effort to load it; however, now, it simply takes a mere few seconds to load, so you can actually view the video in the time it previously took to decide whether the video was worth the effort. Satellite internet gives these residents the high speed alternative to dial-up internet that they need in order to fully appreciate the wealth of tools and information that the worldwide web offers us.
Providing Rural Households with High Speed Satellite Internet
