How to Make Starlink Work Better with Speedify
Listening to your users is one the most important lessons I have learned over and over in business. This past summer Brett Stelmaszek of UFDTech used Speedify, a Starlink, and several Cellular connections to livestream a cross country UFDTech’s Cannonball Run of 2022.
As the network of Starlink satellites has grown, so has its subscriber base, and in the past few months more and more of them have flocked to Speedify to overcome issues with latency and reliability. At Speedify we regularly test our software with multiple ISPs and carriers, and we needed to physically own a Starlink to test and refine Speedify.
This is the first part of a series of learnings that I wish to share with you on the importance of listening to your customers when it comes to driving and growing your business.
Use Speedify to stay online during satellite handoffs every 15 seconds
Starlink switches between satellites every 15 seconds on a fixed schedule. Research confirms Starlink performs handovers at the 12th, 27th, 42nd, and 57th second of every minute, synchronized globally. Each satellite handoff is a potential dropout, and on a congested network or with any obstruction, those Starlink dropouts become real interruptions.
Speedify fixes this by combining your Starlink internet connection with another satellite dish, Wi-Fi, 4G/5G cellular, or wired Ethernet at the same time. When Starlink drops, Speedify keeps your traffic moving on the backup internet connection instantly. Speedify runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, and supported OpenWrt routers.
Speedify alerts you about your Starlink dish status
The Speedify software app alerts you about your Starlink dish status - i.e. when your actuator motor is stuck, the mast is not vertical or there's a thermal throttle. These Starlink dish alerts will appear on your Speedify software app dashboard and are triggered if the specific condition was met at least once in the previous 15 seconds. They will persist for as long as they are active.
Speedify's Starlink Control Center helps you monitor all your Starlink dishes, read obstruction maps, and align multiple dishes for better combined performance. Get a real-time view of each dish's health and optimize the position of each Starlink dish. Have the Starlink dishes cover different sections of the sky, rather than overlapping and wasting your internet bonding capacity.
Speedify makes your uploads and downloads faster, more reliable, and more secure.
Speedify combines Wi-Fi, 4G / 5G cellular, Ethernet, Starlink, and other satellites for faster internet uploads and downloads
Speedify is the only software app that combines Wi-Fi, 4G / 5G cellular, Ethernet, Starlink and other satellites at once for secure, faster, and more reliable internet uploads and downloads so you stay online without interruptions.
Speedify will automatically detect and start using any available Internet connections on your device while intelligently distributing your online traffic between them for optimal performance. If you need help we have quick start guides available for most common set ups.
Speedify gets you faster uploads and downloads from the devices around you
Speedify's Pair & Share feature lets you and the devices around you pair up and share 4G/5G cellular both ways, so every paired device gets faster uploads, faster downloads, and a steadier internet connection. All sides share and use each other's cellular at once, unlike a personal hotspot, where one device gives and the rest take.
Speedify's Pair & Share feature runs over the local network between devices already running Speedify, with no extra hardware and no new data plans. Speedify creates an encrypted pool of shared 4G/5G cellular connections across all paired devices. Each device taps into that shared pool of combined connections for faster upload and download speeds and a more reliable internet connection.
See how you can use Speedify to combine different Internet connections:
Stage 1 - Initial Starlink Testing
Starlink and Live Streaming
To really eat our 'own dog food' we decided that we needed to set up a live stream that used Starlink and Speedify 24/7. This serves us in two ways:
- We have access to Starlink network stats and Speedify network stats for live streaming and are able to see where we’re helping and how we can help better
- We showcase that and turn it into a proof point for people who are having issues with Starlink disconnecting.
Just setting up this Starlink livestream has been a journey full of learning for us. We got to apply all our knowledge from doing the Speedify LIVE shows and working with a new type of Internet connection.
To put it briefly: we’re live streaming from a roof using a Starlink Internet connection together with a secondary Comcast cable connection. This way, we can see how Speedify jumps in when Starlink is being unreliable, measure the parameters and continuously improving it.
Tune in to our Philadelphia skyline livestream on Twitch or YouTube.
Follow the Customer Need and Prove the Value
We’re currently winding up to start sharing our findings on how Speedify helps Starlink users get more reliable Internet connections. This will answer all the questions related to Internet reliability when it comes to Starlink down time.
The good news is that since Speedify 12.7 we have Starlink improvements on each and every release.
We are excited to keep live streaming with Starlink and Speedify. It is truly the 'eat your own dogfood' software challenge.
Get started with Speedify today!
With Speedify you can combine Wi-Fi, 4G / 5G cellular, Ethernet, Starlink and other satellites into one bonded super-connection to improve livestreaming, video calling, gaming, web browsing, and everything else you do online.
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