Making Worldwide Broadband a Reality

Elon Musk is up to it again. He’s announced a plan to launch around 700 satellites that will provide high-speed Internet service to the entire world, and now Google is reportedly backing the project with a cool $1B investment.

We happen to know more than a few things about satellite Internet. Not long after we launched our first product, the Connectify Hotspot virtual router, our team was asked to develop some white-labelled software for a major satellite Internet company. In fact, our frustration in working with slow satellite connections was an impetus for developing Speedify.

Speedify Starlink Index

May 28 – Jun 10, 2026 · 14-day window

Starlink goes down every day.
Here’s what that actually looks like.

Speedify passively monitors every connection it bonds. These figures come from 6,209 Starlink users over 14 days — compared in real time against the other connections on the same devices. No speed tests, no lab conditions.

Daily downtime

~34 min

2.4% of connected time unreachable

Median latency

60 ms

p90 spikes to 257 ms

Avg packet loss

0.17%

vs 0.08% on T-Mobile

Jitter by provider

Jitter measures how much latency varies moment to moment — high jitter causes choppy calls and frozen video even when average latency looks fine.

Starlink28.1 ms

Comcast22.4 ms

T-Mobile15.9 ms

Verizon14.9 ms

AT&T11.3 ms

What Starlink users pair with

71%

of users

71% ran at least one other connection simultaneously — 4,381 of 6,209 users. Cellular is the most common backup.

Cellular 51% Cable / DSL 38% Corporate 11%

6,209 users · 144 countries · 1.26M records · passive measurement, aggregates only Full dataset →

Use Speedify to stay online during satellite handoffs every 15 seconds

Research confirms Starlink switches between satellites every 15 seconds on a fixed schedule. Each satellite handoff is a potential dropout, and on a congested network or with any obstruction, those Starlink dropouts become real interruptions.

Speedify fixes Starlink connection drops 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 alerts you about your Starlink dish status

Speedify software alerts you about your Starlink dish status as soon as your dish experiences an issue - e.g. when your actuator motor is stuck, the mast is not vertical or there's a thermal throttle.

Speedify's Starlink Control Center helps you monitor all your Starlink dishes, read obstruction maps, and align multiple dishes all in the Speedify app. Get a real-time view of each dish's health and optimize the position of each Starlink dish, so you get the best possible performance out of your Starlink connections.

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.

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Speedify combines Wi-Fi, 4G / 5G cellular, Ethernet, Starlink, and other satellites for faster internet uploads and downloads.

The Hurdles

Musk’s successes with Tesla, SolarCity, and SpaceX already prove that he’s capable of executing on big ideas. While details are still pretty thin on this satellite Internet project, there are a few high-level points I feel comfortable making, if only for the sake of discussion:

1. Limited Spectrum

SpaceX claims that they’re going to deliver fiber-like speeds via satellite. The truth is, there isn’t enough available space on the wireless frequency spectrum for that to be possible. Pretty much all of the “good” bands have already been bought by big telecom companies or government interests. So, there’s simply no giant set of frequencies available, fast enough to deliver 100 megabit Internet all over the world. In the end, I’d be impressed if they find a way to deliver 20 Mbps in the real world.

2. Latency will be bad

Even if they do manage to offer decent throughput, latency will be bad. Signals need to be sent into space and back. Depending on the implementation, the signal might even need to bounce between satellites before coming back down to Earth. If Musk manages to deliver 100 ms pings, I’d be amazed. But, 250 ms (quarter-second) averages are more likely. That kind of latency can make even a fast Internet connection feel slow.

3. Bandwidth (and latency) will be variable

The satellites are moving over your head, and signal strengths will get better and worse as they zip by. On top of that, there will be finite bandwidth. As the number of users on the satellite network goes up, your connection speed will inevitably go down.

4. Need to see the sky to get a working link

Tiny satellites simply don’t have the power to transmit through buildings. From the sounds of it, the SpaceX satellite Internet won’t work when you’re inside a coffee shop. Antennas should be fixed to roofs where they can see a lot of sky, and are more likely to have line-of-sight to a satellite.

Enter Speedify

By now, you may realize why I’m excited: all of this makes every SpaceX Internet user into a potential Speedify user, too. Speedify’s ability to adjust for changes in latency and lost packets, will simply make SpaceX Internet links faster.

It gets even better for many of our users in parts of the world where less-than-desirable DSL and 3G speeds are the norm. With Speedify, The SpaceX link can be bonded with other available Internet connections to create a single, faster and more reliable Internet connection. Speedify’s smarts means it always knows exactly how well the satellite link is working: when it’s good, the satellite network gets more traffic, but as latency increases or bandwidth shrinks, Speedify knows to rely more heavily on the DSL connection. So, while SpaceX engineers work on some of the hard problems I outlined above, I’m excited to see this simple equation come to life…

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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.

Speed

Get faster uploads and downloads for everything you do online.

Stability

Avoid buffering and disconnects while streaming, gaming, and browsing.

Security

Keep your personal data safe from hackers, snoops and cyber criminals

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