Field Manual · The Seven Trials
Rostam Media: seven trials to pull the internet out of the sky
When the internet is cut, one network survives: the sky. The complete field manual for Rostam Media — from the four golden tuning numbers to one-click extraction, including the parts where fog remains.
- Yahsat satellite
- ≈4 GB a day
- Fully offline
- Android · Windows · Mac · Linux
On the day the internet is cut outright — like the winter whose war we dissected — every network dies at once, except one: the network hanging overhead that answers to no ministry. Rostam Media is built for that network: every day it rains roughly four gigabytes of news, video, music and tools down from a satellite, without a single byte ever leaving your device in the other direction.
This dossier is its complete field manual, told in the rhythm of the hero who lent it his name: seven trials, from first contact to extraction. The house rules apply as always: every claim carries a source, every number is a range, and where the fog is thick, we write: fog.
1Know your tool: internet that falls from the sky
Rostam Media is — its own definition, on the official site rostam.media — "a service delivering internet content via satellite." The mechanism fits in a sentence: the day's selection is packed onto the signal of a satellite channel; you record it with an ordinary home receiver and open it with the Rostam app. No SIM card, no VPN, no internet at all — and because the road runs only downward from the sky, nobody on the far side ever learns who was listening.
Who is behind it? Honestly: fog. The official site names no organization. What is certain is the antenna itself: satellite monitors list the channel as active on Yahsat this year, and the four numbers you need are these:
- Satellite
- Yahsat
- Frequency
- 11766
- Polarization
- vertical (V)
- Symbol rate
- 27500
Those four numbers are the entire password to the world; tap a card to copy it.
2The gear: the same old dish
Nothing exotic is required — just the rooftop arsenal this country has been collecting, losing to confiscation raids, and quietly rebuilding for decades: an ordinary dish aimed at 52.5 degrees East, and a home receiver that can record to USB. That recording function is the single real requirement of the whole affair.
If your dish is not yet aimed at Yahsat, don't reinvent the wheel: our step-by-step dish and receiver guide works here one-to-one — the satellite, frequency and symbol rate are exactly the values above.
3The signal hunt: recording from the sky
In the receiver's channel list, look for the name "Rostam Media." Then:
- 1Plug a USB flash drive with at least eight gigabytes free into the receiver.
- 2Press record on the Rostam Media channel and let it run three to four hours — the daily package comes down inside that window.
- 3The output is a recording file in ts format; that raw file is your treasure.
- 4Unplug the flash drive and connect it to a phone or computer, directly or through an OTG adapter.
To the receiver, Rostam Media is just another "TV channel," and the recording is an ordinary recording. The entire magic trick happens in the next step — where it turns out this television program was actually a flying hard drive.
4The decryption: the Rostam extractor
The official Rostam app opens the recorded file and — per the site — extracts "all transmitted files with one click." It runs fully offline: needs no internet, generates no traffic, sends nothing off your device. For a tool meant to help in the middle of a blackout, those three sentences are simple sanity — and they stand there as an official pledge. Current version on every platform: 1.0.0:
- Google Play — the Android build; the easiest route while Google Play is reachable
- Direct Android download — the APK from the official server, for when Google Play isn't
- Windows — EXE installer
- Mac — universal build; separate Intel and Apple-Silicon builds exist too
- Linux — tested on Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora
- rostam.media — the official site; the always-current list of every link
Memorize the emergency route today: send one empty email to begir@rostam.media and the fresh download links come back automatically — a channel that works even when the website is blocked. The iOS build is officially "in development"; and any file outside the routes above, from any anonymous channel whatsoever: no.
5The arsenal: what this generation can do
Rostam Media is more than "receive files"; it carries a few new weapons in its pack — per the official site:
- About four gigabytes a day — a daily package of news, video, music and files; every day, not whenever
- The Red Button (HbbTV) — on compatible TVs it shows hundreds of Telegram and X news channels with no internet at all; the television becomes a networkless browser
- Four operating systems from day one — Android, Windows, Mac and Linux; Mac users finally get their share, and iOS is officially on the way
- Tools inside the package — the daily shipments also carry VPNs and circumvention tools; the satellite distributes exactly what the terrestrial network blocks
- Household-name media — BBC Persian, Iran International, Radio Farda, VOA Farsi, Manoto, Deutsche Welle, the Independent and Euronews are on the declared content list
- Zero footprint — reception is a one-way street; nobody on the other end learns who took what, because a return path simply does not exist
6When nothing arrives: field troubleshooting
The software is young — version one — and its official documentation still thin. So, honestly: this list comes from general satellite-recording experience, not an official handbook:
- Can't find the channel? Check signal quality first; the vast majority of problems live under the dish, not in the sky — the setup guide walks you through it.
- Recording cuts off? Check the flash drive's free space before starting; under eight gigabytes is a gamble.
- Extraction yields nothing? Record longer; the full package needs three to four hours of antenna time.
- Truly stuck? Official support is alive: Telegram t.me/rostamsupport, an Instagram DM to rostam.media, and the email autoresponder above.
And one honest boundary: Rostam Media is one-way, not built for live browsing. For that there is a different world of tools — the one that has made a nation the largest VPN market on earth. The two complement rather than compete: the tunnel for as long as a wire exists; the satellite for when the wire is pulled.
7The comparison: what "more" actually means here
Many readers of this page arrive from the world of Toosheh, the satellite service of the same family that we covered at length. The fair comparison, no pleasantries:
And let's bury a naming confusion right here: a second "Rostam" is also in circulation — RostamVPN, a mobile tunneling app with its own website and its own maker. No document ties the two together; they merely share the name. That Rostam is for filtered internet; this one is for dead internet.
Here is the analytical core: the same state that presses the internet kill switch with pride spent forty years hauling satellite dishes off rooftops — and it is precisely those "forbidden" dishes that remain the one door still open during a blackout. In London, satellite reception means more sports channels; there, it decides whether the evening news exists at all. Every new wall the censor builds only reminds people how high the sky hangs.
In the epic, Rostam crossed the seven trials to free a prisoner. Here the order is reversed: the imprisoned cross them nightly themselves — dish, frequency, recording, flash drive, extraction — just to know what is happening outside. Write the frequency down somewhere it cannot be lost. The wall can grow as tall as it likes; it will not reach the sky.
