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Originally posted by SGS
If you are looking to upload through satellite you are wasting your time for couple of reasons.
1. Even those with good upload speeds will cap you after 100mb per month unless you make a prior arrangement (i.e. Money changing hands).
2. Upload through a satellite link usually works in small packets so even though you can upload very quickly it does still cause a lot of problems with FTP programs crashing and corruption problems with larger video files for instance that have to be uploaded in 10,000 separate parts rather than as one big 10 + mb file.
We have a 10mbps satellite connection at the office here which is being upgraded to a 40mbps connection in late July / early August. For all surfing, downloading and general day-to-day work it is absolutely brilliant. The latest one we have here has zero latency and 100% reliable in all but the absolute worst blizzard conditions. We are lucky in that we also have our main office in town as well so we can have a hard-wired DSL connection there, which is just used for uploading stuff onto our servers.
In the EU (although I think that most are now the same) Satellite DSL is blisteringly fast, 100% reliable and very soon will be able to upload perfectly as well but at the moment we are a step back from that and if you need to *depend* upon it for uploading it will let you down. 
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yes, but high speed 2-way satellite is coming for the masses, and also high power WI-FI. cost is too high for hard wiring compared to radio type transmission.
within 5 years most all high speed will be wireless IMO.