Editing Satellite Internet access (section)

==Efficiency increases==
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===2013 FCC report cites big jump in satellite performance===
In its report released in February, 2013, the Federal Communications Commission noted significant advances in satellite Internet performance. The FCC's Measuring Broadband America report also ranked the major ISPs by how close they came to delivering on advertised speeds. In this category, satellite Internet topped the list, with 90% of subscribers seeing speeds at 140% or better than what was advertised.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/measuring-broadband-america/2013/February |title=Measuring Broadband America – February 2013 |date=5 February 2013 |publisher=Federal Communications Commission |access-date=2013-08-29}}</ref>

===Reducing satellite latency===
Much of the slowdown associated with satellite Internet is that for each request, many roundtrips must be completed before any useful data can be received by the requester.{{efn|TCP is bound by the low latency of a three-way handshake. See [[TCP handshake|Transmission Control Protocol]].}} Special IP stacks and proxies can also reduce [[Latency (engineering)|latency]] through lessening the number of roundtrips, or simplifying and reducing the length of protocol headers. Optimization technologies include [[TCP acceleration]], [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol|HTTP]] pre-fetching and [[Domain Name System|DNS]] caching among many others. See the [[Space Communications Protocol Specifications]] standard (SCPS), developed by NASA and adopted widely by commercial and military equipment and software providers in the market space.