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So how exactly is Toosheh getting this satellite to beam their content?
by akx 10y ago
So how exactly is Toosheh getting this satellite to beam their content?
- malekpour 10y agoYears ago I was using http://www.skygrabber.com http://www.skygrabber.com and similar apps to get free internet. I remember I got OpenOffice, JDK, .NET SDK and terabytes of random data while I had no internet access whatsoever.
- mehdiyahya 10y agoSkygrabber works with DVB cards and are used to receive from satellite data streams. Toosheh works with the existing TV satellite receivers. The data is not sent through the TV channel stream instead of the conventional data streams.
- Lanari 10y agoI didn't bother to check but if it's like SkyGrabber it works that way: Internet via satellite is just like a big local network, when you request data it get sent in space unencrypted, you only have to read it... So you basically download what other people are downloading without any way to control what to download except with filters that filter text, css, jpg, small files... since this is most of what people get (browsing the net...).
- dogma1138 10y agoThe data is encrypted that's actually how satellite internet works unless you have the resources of a nation state your packets will be mingled with everyone else's the receiver on your end reads all the packets but can only decrypt the ones intended for you. The uplink varies in the past the uplink usually used to go over dial-up/ISDN or even slow speed DSL but today terrestrial transmitters are quite common in most modern Satnet installations.
- Lanari 10y agoI know. But the unencrypted satellite internet is still on the market getting sold on MENA, and it's the ones SkyGrabber and other software abuse.
- lucaspiller 10y agoIt's in the article - the satellite is run by a company in the UAE, which by comparison to Iran is free and open.
- rdl 10y agoThey bought a DVB channel.
- roywiggins 10y agoThey paid the guys who own it, who are from the UAE and are presumably only too happy to facilitate a poke at the Iranian regime.
- mehdiyahya 10y agoThe data files are encoded and embedded within the TV video stream. This method is different from using data satellite channels which require using a DVB card. With Toosheh, users can use their TV receivers to receive the content. The decoding to data files is done using the Toosheh software.
- walrus01 10y agoThey're renting commercial geostationary Ku transponder capacity (by the kHz) like any commercial TV station.