advantages of satellite?
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Lots of advantages and disadvantages of satellite.  Specifically wrt to internet - as in consumer internet access, the best advantage is that it can be made available just about anywhere, which is great for folks who don't have DSL or is too costly to bring cable to their house.  It is more costly on a per month basis, and there is usually an investment on the equipment up front of a few hundered dollars.  But for about 10 million folk in the US it is probably the best option if you want speeds higher than dial-up.
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Call your satellite provider they can tell you.
567127
The main advantage is a somewhat "fixed" location in the sky relative to the Earth, and relative ease in repositioning them into other fixed positions. There are also some advantages to lower orbits. \n\nGPS satellites are NOT geostationary.  They rely on precise on board time signals and precise knowledge of their orbital ephemerii and a large enough "constellation" such that 3 or more are above the horizon and able for your receiver to pick up at any point in time over nearly the whole planet. \n\nWith a sophisticated control system you can make do with several low orbiting satellites.  The advantage with a low orbit is they are cheaper to launch, and can cover a broader range of latitudes ( geostationary orbits MUST orbit over the equator to be geostationary.  That means at higher latitudes they are lower on the horizon.  At some point they become unusuable, so are not suitable for high bandwidth or reliable communications in places like northern Europe or Russia.) Geo satellites would make EXCELLENT relay satellites for constellations of lower orbiting spacecraft, permitting spacecraft to spacecraft communication. Instead of having to relay between several to get around the globe (*) You could go up to a geo, over to another geo and back down to the other low orbiter and get almost anywhere.  You might need two hops between geos in some circumstances.\n\n(*)which would also require a much more densly populated constellation.  Iridium was named that because the original plan was to have as many satellites as the element Iridium has electrons; 77!
117277
There are no advantages or disadvantages, it's just a short term weather cycle.  It's like asking what's the advantage to rain?  It you're asking, it doesn't influece global warming or any crap like that.
77793
Nobody offers satellite at that price. $59.99 is about as cheap as it gets, however, you'll still have equipment and installation costs too. Check out DirecWay, they don't look too bad:\n\nhttp://hns.getdway.com/HNS/Rooms/DisplayPages/LayoutInitial?Container=com.webridge.entity.Entity%5BOID%5B71A9F5B422ABCE4886D9492F66B5B589%5D%5D
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Advantage\n\n1 connected to the world\n2 e-mail communication\n3 More control than television\n4 develops understanding of logical patterns\n5 could create own web site for the world to see\n6 multi-entertainment, music, video, stories\n7 full text of breaking news stories\n8 technology always improving\n9 hard drive prices have went down\n10 practice your typing\n\nDisadvantages\n\n1 could waste needless time surfing \n2 news stories biased\n3 too many sites listed in search engine\n4 some information not credible\n5  high speed connection cosly\n6 hard drive could be three generations old in one year\n7 not enough innovative thinking by computer corportations\n8 too many bugs in certain browsers\n9 too many high school students plagerize\n10 makes researching too easy and tough research is avoided
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Not very, not yet, those last two satalite launches (a few weeks ago) are going to make it better and, eventually, cheaper.\n\nThere's dead spots.  It's like using a cell phone....
587790
It is a broadband system over satelite systems.
44604
i dont really see any disadvantages . advantages however you can watch record and modify any shows that you want to. for example: you cant watch your favorite show, you can program your your computer (using the software that came with your hardware) to record your show and either watch it on your pc or burn it to dvd and watch it any time you wish.
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it could be possible to use an satellite internet service provider from anywhere on the globe without filtering.  though you would have to have a satellite dish installed to recieve the signals.\n\nthe filtering occurs at the ISP level so if you cant get to a different provider, you have little chance of defeating the filtering without HEAVY coding/hacking.
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A satellite is something that orbits a planet or star.\norbiting involves moving around that object fast enough so that the satellite's rate of descent toward the planet is balanced with its speed so it stays the same distance from the planet(or star).\nSatellites like dishnetwork satellites follow the earth's rotation, by orbiting very high. this lets them essentially stay in one spot to an observer on the earth.\n\nman made satellites receive and send information on parabolic dishes to strengthen their connection.\nother than that, you are on your own.
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Satellite Telecom.  Companies have invested a lot of money in developing the infrastructure.  By the time they have it set up the sat phones will be comparable to regular Cell phones.
578666
Satellite Internet or use your neighbors wifi network :).
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Advantages of LAN:\n\n1. Easier to maintain than a WAN\n\n2. More secure\n\n3. Better connectivity\n\n4. Often easier to configure than a WAN\n\nDisadvantages of LAN:\n\n1. You often only have 1(one) access point.\n\n2. It's limited on who can use it\n\n3. When one computer goes down they all go down(depending on configuration)\n\n\nAdvantages of WAN:\n\n1. Broader reception area.\n\n2. More recievable connections available\n\n3. Portablility (if you use a laptop)\n\nDisadvantages of WAN\n\n1. Not as much security as a LAN\n\n2. If the Hub goes down your network goes down\n\n3. Less reception with a WAN than a LAN\n\n\nThese are just some things I could think of i'm sure others can/will offer more info that is probably better than mine.
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There are literally thousands of satellites in orbit capable of both receiving and transmitting radio signals. Some of their names are Telstar, Comsat (Communication satellites), Cosmos 1602, GOES 7, Landsat 5, NOAA 12, Radarsat, and Seasat 1 (weather satellites).
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A rather large benefit is that of Satellites - without them the world wide web, global communication, weather prediction and at least recognizing pollution as a problem would, if they existed at all, be far less advanced.\n\nIt can also be said that the advance of computer technology has been  partially due to the requirements of space travel.\n\nApart from all these obvious scientific advances the social realization achieved when seeing how small earth is maybe helped in world politics: the realization that it is one tiny little planet helped knock the wind out of national pride and build towards international co-operation. (a bit... not that much though, some people just have thick skulls).
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Advantages - fast creation, easily modified and saves money\n\nDisadvantages - data can be lost or corrupted, needs backing up all the time.