Satellite data transmission speed

Satellite communications involves four steps:

For consumer satellite Internet, the allowance can typically range from 200 MB per day to 25 GB per month . A shared download carrier may have a bit rate of 1 to 40 Mbit/s and be shared by up to 100 to 4,000 end users.

Satellites communicate by using radio waves to send signals to the antennas on the Earth. The antennas then capture those signals and process the information coming from those signals.

An AM radio operates at a frequency between 535-1605 kilohertz (kHz), so a station at 800 kHz has waves cycling 800,000 times per second. A signal from a Ka-band satellite operates at a much higher frequency of around 28 gigahertz (GHz) , 28,000,000,000 times per second.11 Şub 2022