Speedify Lets Network Providers, Carriers, and ISPs Use Starlink to Expand Internet Coverage and Reliability
Yes, Starlink is an ISP (internet service provider): a satellite internet provider that sells service straight to homes and businesses. Other ISPs can use Starlink too. Wireless ISPs (WISPs, which send internet by radio from their towers to customers), rural ISPs and cellular carriers use Starlink to reach customers their own network can’t reach, or as a failover internet connection when their own lines fail.
Speedify, an app that runs on routers and computers, uses a Starlink internet connection together with an ISP’s existing wired, radio or cellular internet connection, so the customer gets the speed of both and stays online when one drops. Below: how ISPs and carriers use Starlink, how Speedify fits in, and where the pair helps most.
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How ISPs, Wireless ISPs and Carriers Use Starlink
Starlink sells business service that network providers can use to reach areas where they have no fiber or towers. What a provider may resell depends on Starlink’s terms in each country, so check with Starlink before you plan a service around it. Starlink’s satellites cover rural and remote areas in many countries. For an ISP serving a rural area, Starlink can be the final link to customers that fixed wireless or wired lines can’t reach.
Starlink also works as a failover path for an ISP’s existing internet connections. Ground networks suffer fiber cuts, power outages and broken equipment. Adding a Starlink internet connection through Speedify, either as a standby or used all the time, keeps customers online when the main internet connection fails.
How Speedify Works When ISPs Add Starlink for Customers
Speedify runs on the customer’s router, or on a router the carrier or ISP manages. Speedify watches every internet connection at the same time and spreads traffic across them. With Starlink and the ISP’s main internet connection both working, Speedify uses both, so the customer gets close to their combined upload and download speed. When the main internet connection fails, Speedify moves all traffic to Starlink right away, and calls and downloads keep going. When the main internet connection comes back, Speedify starts using both again.
Speedify needs at least two internet connections at the customer site. With Starlink alone, Speedify can’t make downloads and uploads faster or cover Starlink’s short drops.
Speedify also encrypts all internet traffic, so customers get the same protection on every internet connection.
How ISPs Can Set Up Speedify with Starlink for Customers
Step 1: Set Up Starlink Service for the Customer Site or Service Area
Activate Starlink service for the customer’s location or your service area. If Starlink is the final link to a rural customer, install the Starlink dish at the customer’s building or at a local distribution point. Check that the Starlink internet connection works.
Step 2: Connect the Starlink Router Next to the Customer’s Main Internet Connection
Connect the Starlink router to the customer’s router, or to the router the ISP manages, next to the existing main internet connection. Each internet connection should show up on its own port in the router’s settings.
Step 3: Install Speedify on the Customer’s Router
Install Speedify on the customer’s router (see the routers that work with Speedify). Each router needs a Speedify Router License. Speedify finds every internet connection and starts using them together. The customer’s internet now runs on Starlink and the main internet connection at the same time, and Speedify switches between them automatically when one fails.
Which Network Providers Benefit Most from Starlink and Speedify
- Rural ISPs and wireless ISPs bringing internet to rural communities where fiber and fixed wireless don’t pay for themselves
- Cellular carriers adding Starlink as a failover internet connection where there aren’t enough towers for steady 4G/5G coverage
- Regional telecom providers offering business customers satellite and wired internet together, so the service stays up when one line fails
- Wholesale internet providers offering Starlink as the final link or as a failover internet connection through their existing sales channels
- Network teams at ISPs who want to run several internet connections per customer site in software, across many sites, on routers they already manage
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Speedify Also Shows Starlink Dish Alerts at Each Customer Site
Speedify shows Starlink dish alerts in the Speedify app at each site, for every Starlink dish connected to it. If a customer’s Starlink dish has a stuck motor, sits on a mounting pole that isn’t straight, or overheats, Speedify shows an alert, so it’s clear whether a problem is the Starlink dish or your own network.
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