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| Ka band is frequency of 18 to 40 Ghz. It's practically light. What makes this Satellite so special is that it can be very directional in patterns over North America so that there can be multiple regions or zones using the same frequencies if they wanted for different purposes. With internet they can put more zones so to speak and therefore one would think there be more bandwidth for each zone. |
| reply to Estragon
Aside from the technology, this also opens up some competition in the satellite broadband market. Until now, your choices were Dish or DirecWay. Neither are a very good. Better than dial up...well, most would say yes, atleast on the download side. But far from being technology for say, rural farmers. (or any non-techie's) Lots of bugs in the hardware and software, high latency, high up front (or long term) hardware costs, etc. And believe if or not, even after buying the hardware, the monthly service rivals even the most expensive wired options, while giving the user speeds that would make most of us with true broadband laugh. (128k max upload, I believe most are lucky to break 70k.)
And then there is the download cap.....Use your connection too much in a 4 hour period, you really are slapped down to dial up speeds for awhile.
Have a read through our satellite forum if you want to learn more.
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