I think the Wild Blue uses a higher freq band, like Ka or something. Plus, to do 2 way internet you need to have the capability to transmit as well as receive. With a regular FTA system, there are some internet signals up there that you can receive, but receiving doesn't do you any good unless you can transmit. There used to be some 1-way services, ie high speed satellite coming down, but you use slower land line going back, but I've heard that these didn't work all that well. I assume that there must still be a couple of these services around, I don't know. The
Twinhan FTA PCI receivers have a program that comes with them called VisionDATA , that when run makes your satellite system a 1-way network interface, that shows up along side your regular NIC in your control panel. I've run this, and have monitored internet data flying by, but have never tried finding a 1 way service to subscribe to. I've since found that TSREADER gives a more convenient way of monitoring IP/DVB type signals, so I haven't used VisionDATA for several years. My original reason for trying VisionDATA was to monitor the NOAAPort data transmitted as UDP packets, but I finally gave up with that project.