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So how would the requests for information be routed up to the satellite? It's not like it can continuously beam down ALL the information all the time.

We could do 10 GB per hour, easily. And that's just one transponder. A twin tuner for a set top box costs $8. To a slightly larger dish and a bit less error correction, a receiver could pull down 1 TB a day.

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