Speedify’s Audio Tracking Lets You Align a Starlink Dish Without Watching the Screen
Aligning a dish usually means one hand on the hardware and both eyes on a phone you can’t quite see. Speedify solves that in the Starlink Control Center with audio tracking: as you rotate the dish toward its target, Speedify plays beeps that speed up as the alignment error shrinks.
This article explains how audio tracking works, when it helps most, and how it fits into aiming a multi-dish setup.
How Speedify’s Starlink Alignment with Audio Tracking Works
Select any dish in the Dish Orientation card to open the Alignment Wizard for that dish. From there:
- Speedify calculates the target heading for the selected dish.
- As you physically rotate the dish, Speedify measures the gap between its current heading and the target.
- The beeps get faster as that gap closes, and reach a steady fast tone at the target.
You keep your hands on the dish and your eyes on the mount instead of on a screen you can’t reach.
Speedify Starlink Index — real-world performance from 6,209 Starlink users: 2.4% downtime, about 34 minutes a day for always-on connections
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
71% ran at least one other connection simultaneously — 4,381 of 6,209 users. Cellular is the most common backup.
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.
See how you can use Speedify to combine different Internet connections:
When Speedify’s Starlink Audio Tracking Earns Its Keep
Audio tracking matters most exactly where dishes tend to go: on a roof, on a mast, on a vessel’s hardtop, or anywhere the screen is out of sight while your hands are on the hardware. It also speeds up the work of getting two dishes onto different sky, since you can aim each one to its Speedify-calculated heading without climbing back down to check. Starlink’s guidance on giving each antenna a clear, unobstructed view sets the target; audio tracking helps you hit it.
How Proper Starlink Dish Alignment Improves Speedify’s Bonding
Good alignment isn’t the goal on its own. The point is two dishes on different sky, each with a low obstruction percentage, feeding Speedify’s channel bonding technology. Speedify combines the aligned dishes into one connection, distributes traffic across them at the packet level, and fails over instantly if one is blocked. The cleaner each dish’s aim, the more capacity Speedify has to work with.
Who Benefits from Speedify’s Starlink Audio Tracking
- Rooftop and mast installers. No more squinting at a phone propped on a ladder.
- Maritime crews. Aligning a dish on a moving deck is far easier by ear than by eye.
- Anyone aiming two dishes apart. Audio tracking makes the second dish quick to set without constant screen checks.
Speedify and Starlink: Align Fast, Then Bond
Audio tracking gets each Starlink dish onto its target heading with your eyes on the hardware. Speedify’s channel bonding technology takes the well-aimed dishes and combines them into one faster, more resilient connection. For the full set of alignment tools, see how to use Speedify’s Starlink Control Center.
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