Re: Call me skeptical but...
"Have you ever tried to manually position a dish to pick up a satellite signal in the most optimal way?"
Have you ever seen a satellite phone? Yes, the data rate of those is kinda crappy, but on the other hand it's only just possible to tell them apart from one of the more modern GSM bricks of yore - they have a slightly larger nub. That's it. Low earth orbit is roughly a hundred times closer than the geostationary stuff we tend to aim dishes at, and things in it only stay on your sky for a few minutes at a time. You don't _aim_ anything at stuff like that unless you're NORAD or something...