Any satelitte systems for both TV and Internet combined?

DarkSkySeeker wrote:

Big Katuna wrote:


Data goes up from your dish to a sat, gets processed, then sent back to earth to their receiver, routed to the appropriate place in the internet, back to the big dish, back to space, routed, then back to you. So lots of back and forth like gaming, and it’s slooooww.

Can't the satellite orbit a little lower to reduce the distance? Like half a mile up? Low enough to eliminate the latency. Just kidding.

If your patient, Elon Musk/Spacex will soon start putting up thousands of low earth orbit (LEO) satellites for worldwide high speed Internet service with latency claimed to approach that of cable and fiber services.