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To: Dorine Essey who wrote (114838)4/7/1999 4:50:00 PM
From: Philip Williams  Read Replies (1) of 176387
 
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you still need a phone line for a satelite modem. The satelite only receives data, your phone line transmits info from your computer to the ISP. Since the bottleneck is in receiving vast amounts of information (streaming video, etc.), the satelite alleviates this bandwidth bottleneck, and since your computer doesn't send very much information back--just your clicks as you browse and change sites--the phone finishes the loop. It would be much, much more expensive to have a satelite transmitter as well as receiver.
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