Speed is certainly the number one advantage. Satellite Dish Internet is up to 40 times faster than conventional dial-up internet connections. Being able to bundle your DirecWay® Internet Service with your DirecTV® Digital Satellite TV is another advantage. Satellite communications also experience less down-time than wire and cable services. Satellite Internet Access is very reliable.

No! Wireless Internet is bi-directional unlike many satellite and cable solutions that require a phone line for uploading information. This wireless solution eliminates the need for any dedicated phone lines, and therefore reduces your costs, while providing data rates much better than cable modems or ISDN.

Yes, DIRECTV offers a satellite dish for TV and the Internet through DirecWay. Click on the links below for more information.

Nope. Although both technologies use a roof-mounted antenna to connect you to the Internet, the delivery of the signal is very different and more stable than satellite Internet.

In a relatively short period of time, satellite communications grew from a simple but successful experiment into a complex series of networks comprising a multi-billion-dollar industry. Phone companies use satellites to carry thousands of long-distance calls, businesses use them for data communications, and all phases of the television industry employ satellites to relay their programming from point-to-point. Satellites have solved a number of problems inherent in other forms of communications.

NO! Wireless uses ground-based antennas to transmit data to your location. And while satellite systems usually require you to use a regular phone line and modem to send data, wireless systems are 2-way transmissions. Also, satellite systems have higher "latency" (the time it takes data to travel between 2 points) since the data has to travel from your location up to the satellite 4 miles up and back down to the Internet, see www.speedguide.net/editorials/satellite.shtml for more information.

Satellite Internet Access ( also called SatellitePC, Satellite PC, Satellite Dish Internet, Satellite DSL, DirecWay® Satellite Internet Access, DirecTV® Satellite Internet Access, EarthLink® Satellite Internet Access, Broadband Satellite, and many other names ) connects your home and business computers to the internet using a small satellite dish to relay data signals to an Internet Service Provider ( ISP ) via a satellite in earth orbit.

A tremendous time savings to you! Your dial up brings back information from websites into your computer at anywhere from 5 to 56K, while the satellite will bring the same information into your computer at 256-1500Kbps. The theoretical maximum speed over your telephone line back into your computer is 42Kbps. This is a time saving of 5 to 26X

Europe Online offers "Internet via satellite" with the service called "EOL FastSurf". For more information, please check the EOL FastSurf section.

Internet Surfing via satellite is offered with our EOL FastSurf service. For more information, please check the EOL FastSurf section.

Two-Way Internet is the solution for eveyone who is ready for high speed Internet access. It is available to everyone in the Middle East and as long as you have a clear view of the sky.

It’s available now! Submit your Order Information Request online at www.cosmosatellite.com/hughesnet or call 1-800-961-3639 and Get Yours!

SURE ! As long as you have a clear view of the Southern sky, you can get Satellite Dish Internet Access with Satellite TV. You can also get just the Satellite Dish Internet Service if you wish.