Broadband By Satellite Dish ?

[mikey4444]

This may be a daft question but here goes anyway !

Why is not possible to supply a good broadband connection via a TV satellite dish, like Sky for instance ? Presumably if it were possible, Sky would already have done it, so there must be a technical problem involved. Satellite dishes provide a very good way of broadcasting TV pictures, so why not internet access ? Most of us still get our telephone service via copper wires, strung along wooden poles, in much the same way we did generations ago, with all their inherent problems.

I'm not talking about satellite phones, which you often see being used by news organisations like the BBC when they are in remote places.

[mikey4444]

Thanks WyeDyed, and everybody else. I have done a speedtest this afternoon and its says my download speed is 11.23, which isn't bad considering I am a mile from the Exchange.

[BenjaminFoley]

As you already said, might have some technical problems that is why it is not possible in some. Actually haven't seen someone here with satellite dish using it for internet purposes but for cable only. Providers here don't use satellite dish for broadband connection yet.
http://www.rrsat.com/service-item/29/satellite-downlink-turnaround-uplink
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/bc-eutelsat-communicatio-idUSnPN0046407+180+PRN20131004