Speedify Lets You Use a Second Starlink on Your Account for More Reliable Internet and Faster Upload and Download Speeds
You can have multiple Starlink dishes on one Starlink account. Starlink’s Help Center says a Residential account can have up to 8 Starlink kits, each with its own subscription (Starlink calls it a service plan), and Business accounts have no set limit on service locations.
Having two Starlink dishes on one account doesn’t make them work together, though. Your computer or phone still uses one Starlink dish at a time. Speedify, an app that uses all your internet connections at the same time, sends your internet traffic over both Starlink dishes at once, so you get more speed and stay online if one of them drops. That also works with a Starlink Mini alongside your main dish. With a single Starlink dish and no other internet connection, Speedify works as an encrypted VPN and cannot stop that dish from dropping.
What You Get When You Add a Second Starlink Dish to Your Account
Each Starlink dish on your account is a separate internet connection, with its own Starlink router and its own Wi-Fi network. For the steps to add one, see how to add a second Starlink dish to your account.
On its own, a second Starlink dish doesn’t add up with the first one. Your device connects to one Starlink dish at a time, and if that Starlink dish drops, your video call or upload drops with it. To use both Starlink internet connections at the same time, you need an app that combines them.
Once the two are combined, a problem with one Starlink dish, or with its view of the sky, won’t take you offline. Both Starlink dishes still use the same Starlink network, though, so a Starlink outage in your area affects both. Every Starlink dish switches satellites on the same 15-second schedule, so the short dropout at each switch hits both at once. For an internet connection that doesn’t depend on Starlink, add 4G/5G cellular as well.
How Two Starlink Dishes from One Account Work at the Same Time
Speedify runs on your device and keeps checking both Starlink internet connections: their speed, their delay and how much data they lose. When both work well, Speedify sends your internet traffic over both, for up to 95% of their combined upload and download speed by Speedify’s own published figure. When one Starlink dish weakens or drops, Speedify moves everything to the other one. Your traffic leaves through a Speedify server, so the public IP address stays the same and your video calls and downloads keep going.
Speedify also encrypts all your internet traffic across both Starlink internet connections, with DTLS 1.2 and AES-256-GCM or ChaCha20-Poly1305.
How to Use Two Starlink Dishes on One Account Together with Speedify
If you already have one Starlink dish set up on your account, here’s what to do:
Step 1: Set Up Your Second Starlink Dish
Add the second Starlink dish to your Starlink account and set it up with the Starlink app. It comes with its own Starlink router and Wi-Fi network.
Step 2: Connect Your Device to Both Starlink Routers
Connect your computer to the first Starlink router with an Ethernet cable or over Wi-Fi, and to the second Starlink router the other way. If you want to use the same kind of connection for both, add a USB Ethernet adapter or a USB Wi-Fi adapter. On a Mac, use the USB Ethernet adapter: USB Wi-Fi adapters work on a Mac only with Intel Macs on macOS 11 Big Sur or older. Check your network settings to make sure both Starlink internet connections are active.
Step 3: Download and Run Speedify
Download Speedify on your device. Speedify finds both Starlink internet connections and starts using them together right away, with no settings to change.
From then on, Speedify handles both Starlink dishes in the background: it combines them for faster uploads and downloads, watches for drops, moves your traffic when one Starlink dish struggles, and encrypts everything. For a phone setup, see how to combine two Starlink connections on iPhone.
Who Should Use Two Starlink Dishes on One Account
- Remote workers and households whose one Starlink dish gets blocked or fails now and then, and who want a second Starlink dish to take over on its own
- Businesses and remote sites that need more upload and download speed than one Starlink dish gives them
- Content creators and live streamers who need the upload speed of both Starlink dishes at once
- IT managers running several Starlink dishes who want them combined in software, without extra hardware
- Anyone already paying for two Starlink dishes who wants to use both at the same time instead of switching between them by hand
See the Status and Alerts of Both Starlink Dishes Side by Side
The Starlink app shows one Starlink dish at a time, because every Starlink dish uses the same 192.168.100.1 address. Speedify shows the live status and real-time Starlink dish alerts for each of your Starlink dishes in one place. If either Starlink dish’s motor is stuck, its pole isn’t straight or it is overheating, Speedify shows the alert once the problem has lasted 15 seconds, and clears it when it’s fixed. There’s more in how to manage two Starlink dishes at once with Speedify.
For businesses: Speedify can combine every Starlink dish on your account across your team’s devices, or on a router with a Speedify Router License. Speedify Teams costs $89.99 per user per year, with no minimum number of users. Contact Us to plan the setup for your sites.
For individuals and households: Download Speedify to use both of your Starlink dishes at the same time.
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Add Speedify to your own app or hardware with the Speedify SDK. Your product then combines internet connections, fails over automatically when one drops, and encrypts the traffic, using the same technology as the Speedify app.