Running Multiple Starlink Dishes for Business Internet with Speedify
Your business can run two or more Starlink dishes at the same location. On its own, though, each device uses only one Starlink dish at a time, so a second Starlink dish adds no speed and doesn’t take over on its own when the first one drops.
Speedify is an app that uses all your internet connections at the same time, like two Starlink dishes. Your team gets faster uploads and downloads and stays online if one Starlink dish goes down. Every Starlink dish switches satellites at the same moment, so the short dropouts at each switch need an internet connection that isn’t Starlink, such as 4G/5G cellular. On a single Starlink dish, Speedify works as an encrypted VPN and can’t add speed. Below: why businesses add a second Starlink dish, and the two ways to set it up.
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Why Businesses Use Two or More Starlink Dishes
Starlink brings fast internet to places fiber and cable don’t reach: remote offices, construction sites, mobile operations and field teams. But one Starlink dish has real limits when a business depends on it:
- Busy times: when many people nearby are online at once, Starlink slows down, and some Starlink plans are slowed down before others. One Starlink dish can’t get around that.
- Weather: rain, snow and storms can weaken your Starlink signal at the worst moment.
- Hardware problems: if your only Starlink dish fails, your whole team goes offline.
- Speed limits: one Starlink dish has a top speed, and video calls, file uploads, cloud apps and internet phone calls all share it.
For a household, those limits are annoying. For a business, they cost money.
What Running Two Starlink Dishes Looks Like for a Business
Starlink supports multiple Starlink dishes on one account. Each Starlink dish needs its own hardware and its own monthly subscription.
The harder part is making both Starlink dishes work together instead of being two separate internet connections. Without the right software, your business devices use one Starlink dish at a time. You don’t get the speed of both, nothing switches over on its own when one fails, and your team has to switch by hand.
That’s what Speedify changes.
Combine Multiple Starlink Dishes for Business with Speedify
Speedify is an app that combines two Starlink internet connections, or a Starlink internet connection with Wi-Fi, 4G/5G cellular, Ethernet or other satellite internet, and uses all of them at the same time.
Speedify spreads your internet traffic across all your internet connections, based on how each one performs at that moment. Your business gets:
Faster uploads and downloads. Speedify uses every Starlink dish at the same time, so your team gets close to the speed of both Starlink dishes combined instead of the speed of one.
No interruptions when one Starlink dish drops. If one Starlink dish goes offline because of an obstruction in its view of the sky, a power cut or a hardware problem, Speedify moves all traffic to the one that works. Video calls, file transfers and cloud apps keep running. Both Starlink dishes share the same Starlink network and switch satellites on the same 15-second schedule, so a Starlink network outage and the short dropout at each satellite switch hit both at once. A 4G/5G cellular connection added to Speedify covers those.
Nothing to set up by hand. Speedify finds all your internet connections on its own. Your IT team doesn’t have to write routing rules or move traffic between Starlink dishes.
Encryption on every internet connection. Speedify encrypts all your internet traffic (AES-256), whichever Starlink dish carries it.
Priorities and data limits for each internet connection. In the Speedify app, you can set each internet connection to Automatic, Primary, Secondary, Backup or Never, and set daily or monthly data limits or a speed limit. That’s useful when you want a metered 4G/5G cellular connection used only as a Backup, when your Starlink dishes drop.
Two Ways to Use Speedify with Two Starlink Dishes in Your Business
Option 1: Run the Speedify App on Each of Your Team’s Devices
This is the simpler way to start. Each team member installs Speedify on their Windows PC, Mac, Linux machine, iPhone or Android phone, and Speedify combines both Starlink internet connections right on that device.
What you need:
- Two working Starlink dishes, each with its own hardware and subscription
- Each device connected to both Starlink dishes: usually one Starlink router over Wi-Fi and the other with an Ethernet cable, or a USB Wi-Fi adapter for the second Starlink Wi-Fi network (USB Wi-Fi adapters do not work on Apple chip Macs or on macOS 12 and later). Most phones join only one Wi-Fi network at a time, so on a phone Speedify uses Starlink Wi-Fi together with 4G/5G cellular.
- The Speedify app on every device you want to cover
- A Speedify Teams plan ($89.99 per user per year), with an online dashboard to add and remove users, manage seats and billing, and see usage for the whole team
This works well for small teams, and for people like remote workers or field staff who need faster uploads and downloads on their own devices.
Option 2: Run Speedify on a Router to Cover Every Device
If you want every device on your network to use both Starlink dishes without installing Speedify on each one, run Speedify on a router that supports it.
The router combines both Starlink internet connections for your whole network. Every device on your business Wi-Fi gets the combined speed, and stays online when one Starlink dish drops.
What you need:
- Two working Starlink dishes, each plugged into your router
- A router that runs Speedify. The Miri X510 is a router built to run Speedify, and a ready-to-go choice for businesses
- A Speedify Router License for the router, which also includes a Speedify account for up to 5 other devices
This option grows with you. New devices on your network don’t need any Speedify setup of their own, and it also covers devices that can’t run Speedify, like smart TVs, printers and other connected equipment.
Combine Starlink Dishes for Every Device on the Business Network
Speedify runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android. To cover every device on the network, not just laptops and phones, Speedify also runs on supported OpenWrt routers, where it combines all your Starlink internet connections for everything on your business Wi-Fi.
For larger or more complex setups, Speedify offers Dedicated Server and Self-Hosted Server options: Speedify runs private servers for your business, or your business runs Speedify on its own servers. You get servers only your team uses, fixed IP addresses and port forwarding, which helps businesses with compliance rules or specific network needs.
When Two Starlink Dishes Make Sense for a Business
Remote offices and field operations. Where there’s no fiber or cable, one Starlink dish is the best internet available, but it’s also the one thing that can take everyone offline. Two Starlink dishes combined with Speedify give your remote office faster internet with failover built in.
Businesses that can’t afford to go offline. Video production teams, medical clinics, financial services and anyone else who loses money when the internet drops get automatic switching across several Starlink dishes.
Teams with several heavy jobs online at once. When your team runs several video calls, uploads large files to the cloud and works in online apps all at the same time, one Starlink dish becomes the bottleneck. Speedify spreads that load across both Starlink dishes.
Failover for your wired internet. If your business already has cable or fiber, adding one or two Starlink dishes with Speedify gives you a second internet connection that takes over on its own when the wired line goes down.
For businesses: Speedify can combine the Starlink dishes at each of your offices and sites. Contact Us to plan the setup for your team.
For individuals and households: Download Speedify to use two Starlink dishes together at home.
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