Get Faster Internet Upload and Download Speeds for Your Business with Speedify: Combine Multiple Starlink Internet Connections
Starlink bonding means using two or more Starlink dishes, or Starlink plus 4G/5G cellular, Wi-Fi or a wired line, together as one faster internet connection that stays up when one of them drops. Speedify is an app that combines multiple Starlink internet connections, or Starlink with 4G/5G cellular, Wi-Fi and Ethernet, and uses all of them at the same time.
Speedify does it in software, on your computers or on a router, so no special hardware is required. Speedify needs at least two internet connections to do this: with a single Starlink dish, Speedify works as an encrypted VPN and cannot add speed or stop Starlink from dropping. Below: what combining several Starlink dishes actually does, how Speedify does it, which setups work, and how to set them up for your business.
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What Starlink Bonding Does When a Business Has Several Starlink Dishes
Most businesses that install a second Starlink dish end up with two separate internet connections that work on their own. Without software to combine them, each device uses one internet connection at a time. You get the upload and download speed of one Starlink dish, not both. To get devices onto the second Starlink dish, someone has to switch them by hand or set up complicated routing rules.
Combining them is different. Every device uses the speed of both Starlink dishes at the same time, as one internet connection. A team member uploading a large file during a video call draws on both Starlink dishes, not just one. Here is how businesses use two Starlink dishes at once.
The same works when you use Starlink together with other kinds of internet connection. Speedify can combine:
- Two or more Starlink internet connections
- Starlink plus one or more 4G/5G cellular connections
- Starlink plus a wired broadband line
- Any mix of the above at the same time
In every case, Speedify spreads your internet traffic across all your internet connections based on how each one performs right now, and moves traffic off any internet connection that weakens or drops.
How Speedify Combines Multiple Starlink Internet Connections
Speedify sends all your internet traffic through one encrypted connection to a Speedify server. Along the way, Speedify splits the traffic across every internet connection you have (several Starlink dishes, 4G/5G cellular, a wired line), based on the speed, delay and lost data it measures on each one.
That’s different from what most routers with two internet ports do:
- A typical router sends each whole call or download down one internet connection. One video call goes over Starlink dish one, another over Starlink dish two. Each call or download is capped at the speed of one Starlink dish.
- Speedify splits a single video call, file upload or VPN session across all your internet connections at once, so it gets close to their combined speed, not the speed of one.
With two Starlink dishes, that means close to the speed of both added together, instead of being capped at the speed of one.
Because all traffic goes through Speedify, nothing restarts when one internet connection drops. The call or upload carries on over the others.
Speedify needs at least two internet connections to do any of this. With one Starlink dish alone, Speedify can’t add speed or stop Starlink’s short drops.
Ways to Combine Multiple Starlink Dishes with Speedify
- Two Starlink dishes together. Both Starlink dishes work at the same time. Speedify spreads traffic across both and moves it to the other one automatically if one drops. Every Starlink dish switches satellites on the same 15-second schedule, though, so the short dropout at each switch hits both dishes at once. The right setup for remote offices and field teams with no 4G/5G cellular coverage.
- Two Starlink dishes plus 4G/5G cellular. Three internet connections at once. The most protection you can get without a wired line: any one of them can fail without taking the site offline. Speedify uses all three for more upload and download speed when all are working.
- Starlink plus 4G/5G cellular from several carriers. For teams on the move, or places where one carrier’s coverage is patchy, Speedify can use Starlink together with SIM cards from two or more carriers. One carrier’s dead spots are covered by the others.
- Starlink plus a wired line plus 4G/5G cellular. For businesses that have some wired internet as well as Starlink, all three work together. Speedify favors whichever internet connection performs best, and you can set data limits on cellular plans with a data cap.
How to Set Up Speedify to Combine Multiple Starlink Dishes
Option 1: The Speedify App on Each Device
- Connect your device to each Starlink dish, usually through the Wi-Fi network of each Starlink router, or one over Wi-Fi and one with an Ethernet cable.
- If you’re adding 4G/5G cellular, also connect to a cellular hotspot or a cellular router’s Wi-Fi.
- Install the Speedify app. Speedify runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android.
- Speedify finds every internet connection automatically and starts using them together. You don’t have to set up any routing.
- On a Speedify Teams plan, set connection priorities and data limits in the Speedify app on each device, or push Speedify settings to the whole team through the Speedify Teams API.
Option 2: Speedify on a Starlink Bonding Router
- Connect each Starlink dish, and any other internet connection, to a router that works with Speedify. The Miri X510 router, built to run Speedify, has several internet ports and is made for exactly this.
- Speedify combines all the internet connections on the router. Every device on the network gets the combined speed and stays online when one internet connection drops, with no app to install on each device.
- Set connection priorities and data limits from the Speedify for Routers dashboard.
Every Starlink dish uses the same 192.168.100.1 address, which is why the Starlink app shows only one at a time. For how Speedify shows them side by side, see how to manage two Starlink dishes at once with Speedify.
Which Businesses Need to Combine Multiple Starlink Dishes with Speedify
- Remote offices that outgrow one Starlink dish. When your team runs video calls, uploads large files and uses cloud apps all at once, one Starlink dish becomes the limit. Two Starlink dishes with Speedify give you close to twice the speed.
- Field teams that need speed and a failover internet connection. At remote sites with no 4G/5G cellular coverage, two Starlink dishes give the team more speed, and each dish covers for the other. One broken Starlink dish no longer takes the site offline.
- Live broadcast and streaming teams. Video teams streaming in high quality over Starlink need as much upload speed as they can get, and no drops. Speedify combines several Starlink internet connections into one faster upload that keeps going when one Starlink dish drops.
- Offshore platforms and ships. Ships and offshore platforms that run on Starlink can add a second Starlink dish, or a VSAT service (traditional ship satellite internet with a larger dish) as the failover. Speedify spreads traffic across all of them and switches automatically.
- MSPs managing many client sites. Managed service providers can use Speedify to run the same setup of several internet connections at every client site, with team members and billing in the Speedify Teams dashboard and settings pushed through the Speedify Teams API.
Speedify Plans for Combining Multiple Starlink Dishes
Speedify Teams gives your IT team one account for the whole business: the Teams dashboard handles team members, billing and usage statistics, and the Speedify Teams API pushes Speedify settings to every team device. Speedify Teams costs $89.99 per user per year.
For businesses that need a private server, static IP addresses and port forwarding, Speedify Dedicated Servers are a managed option. For businesses with rules about where data must be kept, Speedify Self-Hosted Servers let your team run all Speedify traffic through servers you own.
To plan how many Starlink dishes and other internet connections your sites need, and whether to run Speedify on each device or on a router, Contact Us.
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