The author Ron Legarski
The term satellite Internet refers to satellite signal that is transmitted from a transmitting satellite to receiving satellite dishes on user's homes. This terminology is used in relation to satellite internet. The Internet refers to the size of the signal that is transmitted.
Satellite bandwidth is associated with satellite systems that work on a two way system. The first way is the sending of the signal and the second way is the receiving. This system involves sending and receiving a signal from a satellite that is orbiting the earth over 22,000 plus miles in the area. To help get an image of this orbiting satellite imagine traveling across the United States five and a half times.
This technology is not required for cell phones and is unique to satellite bandwidth. The primary satellite is a satellite that orbits the earth. This is known as the Geosynchronous satellite, which typically orbits the earth over the equator at approximately the same speed as the as the earth's rotation. This means that the satellite stays in approximately the same spot over the earth throughout its entire orbit as its name implies.
This geosynchronous satellite creates a footprint onto the earth; this footprint is the coverage area of that particular satellite. As a user of satellite internet travels they may find that they need to switch satellites as they move in or out of the footprint of the particular satellites whose satellite Internet signal they are receiving.
The most modern satellites offer a bigger and bigger footprint to the point that some geosynchronous satellites footprints may cover the entire United States, Canada and Mexico making switching satellites less and less necessary, meaning that the user will receive satellite Internet signal from virtually anywhere in the country.
The satellite broadband signal that transmits from the geosynchronous satellite uses a frequency band that is of the electromagnetic spectrum. This signal band is the same frequency that radar detectors use and may in some cases cause distortion of the signal.
In order to send out the signal the geosynchronous satellite uses what is known as a transponder to pick up the signal in the electromagnetic spectrum This satellite also has a receive transponder so that the satellite Internet that picks up the signal coming from the users satellite, sending the signal back to the geosynchronous satellite.
For the satellite Internet signal to travel properly between the geosynchronous satellite and the user satellite the signal that transmits form the users dish must be precisely timed to be received by the geosynchronous satellite. To clarify this imagine a signal traveling from a users dish from Texas to two different satellites, one over Texas and another over Canada, the users signal will be received faster from the satellite over Texas than by the one over Canada, because the users location is closer to the Texas satellite geographically, therefore it is pertinent that the users satellite be set to operate with the Texas satellite to assure the fastest possible signal communication and consequently utilizing the satellite Internet to its best potential for the strongest possible satellite Internet transmission
