Nope.

The latency between them is massive, Satellite internet is great for everyone EXCEPT gamers. Imagine a packet being sent into space, then back down, then back up, then back down again.

Stick to wires =D

you're fucking replying to jonesy.

..and?

which is why he asked "If satellites were in the middle of cities instead of outer-space" :P

actually, yes. but a satellite in the middle of a city wouldn't be a satellite.

then it wouldn't be satellites.. It would rather be some sort of a hotspot, and yes, some cities is experimenting with wireless internet..:)

Huh, but i have satalite speakers in my living....Does that mean they are from space, i live in space or they were made in space (china got some off-world factories)??

I read about experiments with something like that. Basically, they just hook up a hotspot to a baloon filled with helium and let it hang high above the area.

Pirate radio stations used this system in london, cant remember the correct term for it tho, basically the studio would be in one tower block while the transmitter was in another, they used statellite dishes relaying between 2/3 tower blocks before it hit the transmitter location so when the dti busted it they wouldnt get the studio right away, gave t hem time to move their equipment

microwave transmitters i think they were called ?

Satellites buried in the Earth itself. LINK.

I live literally a ¼ of a mile from good internet. Couldn't they just rig up a large, hi-yield wireless antenna somewhere in the area? If I use directional and they use omni-directional, it should be more profitable for them, and good internet for me. Or does the technology not work based on size?

Why don't you rig it up yourself?

http://www.radiolabs.com/products/antennas/2.4gig/high-gain-wifi-antenna.php?PHPSESSID=a2342d13166cdaf59d397a6027661d0f$150 for a 15dBi gain omni with mast

I am sure you can find a cheaper Yagi for your line of sight.
You will need pigtails, lightning arrestors, and a radio on each end, but that can all be had on the cheap. In fact, you don't even need anything nearly as high as 15dB gain for one quarter of a mile. Hell, if you flash a home "router" with third party firmware, you can probably increase the transmit power to 1mW, or whatever is max for 2.4GHz (I forgot).

With that much power on the radio, you could get a cheap 5dBi yagi and make 1/4 mile.

ye, the router would probably melt though.

I'm talking about essentially a giant-router. Couldn't they use something like that to inexpensively cover a large, sparsely-populated area? It could work for cell-phones and cars and things, as well as houses (including my house).

Wouldn't it work better all-around though, with a giant wireless router? You would only need to stretch 1 wire from router to router, rather than trillions of wires all over the world.

monkey_business is really getting to you, isn't he?