Although I do not have a sattelite internet connection, I think that you will probably like the speed increase over a modem. You might want to consider though if anyone gives you numbers as to the speed, to also consider that one number often left out of discussions about Internet access speeds is latency. Latency is the amoung of time necessary to establish the connection to a site, and often varies widely among connection methods. Sattelite by nature has a very high latency (meaning slow), and so you will not likely experience a huge difference in the speed of general web browsing, but for large file downloads, you will certainly notice. The difference here is that in a large file download, the amount of time to establish the connection is small relative to the total time of the download, so it makes little difference, but for small downloads(like when web browsing), the latency makes up a large percentage of the total download time, and therefore a low latency "slow connection" will often outperform a high latency "fast connection". I hope that I have not confused this issue too much, but I guess my point is to make sure that you understand that one 56Kbps connection is not always the same as another 56Kbps connection. Good luck...
