Broadband Internet Equipment(reciever E.t.c)

Anyone using broadband internet at home. I want to know about the Arieal/Dish thing thats used to recieve. I want to know the various types. Comments fellas,

I am talking about the equipments used for broadband internet. There is this Dish kind of thing that looks like a reciever. I want to know the various types, the price range, what you guys think about using broadband internet at home, in short everything you know about getting broadband at home.