How to Take Advantage of Elon Musk’s Magic Touch as a Startup
Everything Elon Musk touches, from Tesla and SpaceX to Starlink, seems to attract an instant fan base. This article is a small startup’s take on how Starlink’s fast-growing popularity helped its own product get noticed.
That product is Speedify, an app that combines Starlink with Wi-Fi, 4G/5G cellular or Ethernet at the same time, for faster downloads and uploads and fewer dropouts, which makes Speedify a natural fit for Starlink users who want a more reliable internet connection.
Starlink Internet Connection Dropouts Happen to Everyone
Speedify measures thousands of Starlink users in more than 150 countries. From 29 September to 12 October 2026, fixed Starlink dishes went offline for about 37 minutes a day on average, and Starlink dishes on RVs and boats for about 61 minutes a day.
Starlink also switches each dish to a new satellite every 15 seconds, and a switch can cause a short dropout. Even a perfectly installed Starlink dish goes offline, and about 7 in 10 Starlink users on Speedify use Starlink together with a second internet connection, like 4G/5G cellular.
Starlink Index: what thousands of real Starlink connections measure
Sep 29 to Oct 12, 2026Daily downtime
46 min
3.2% of connected time, across all dishes
Median latency
55 ms
the worst 10% of users see 295 ms
Avg packet loss
0.19%
vs 0.07% on T‑Mobile
Avg jitter
1.2 ms
vs 6.8 ms on Verizon
What Starlink users pair with
How Speedify Found Its First Starlink Users
For the last few years we’ve been working on Speedify. For many people working at home or on the move, Speedify has been a lifeline, especially in this age of Zoom, Teams, and Slack calls. But sometimes, a small company has a hard time getting noticed.
Until recently, satellite internet has been a relatively niche market, only afforded by intrepid explorers or seafaring vessels. Despite offering connectivity in remote corners of the world, the technology was hampered by slow speeds and crushing latency which made even the simplest of online tasks incredibly difficult. An early Speedify post looked at the biggest hurdles for SpaceX’s satellite plan.
Then came Starlink, Musk’s satellite internet service, which promised broadband-quality internet from a network of low Earth orbit satellites.
The first clear signal that Starlink and Speedify were a perfect match was Nelson Minar’s “Speedify and multipath” blog post where he connected the dots and talked about using Speedify to “paper over Starlink’s unreliability”. In fact he says “after most of a day of using it I bought a year of Speedify… It really does work as advertised. None of my sessions dropped; World of Warcraft, persistent TCP sockets, two hour idle ssh sessions all stayed open and working. Really solid.”
How Speedify Learned What Starlink Users Needed
At Speedify we always keep our ears to the ground to find new and interesting use cases for our product, and if Speedify worked so well for Nelson there would surely be others out there looking to solve their Starlink issues as well. So, we instantly got to work reading every forum, review, and testimonial we could find.
What did we learn? Starlink is occasionally really fast, sometimes as high as 350 Mbps when you have a satellite right overhead, but often unreliable. It frequently suffers from bursts of packet loss that Speedify’s error correction helps cover, and when Starlink does get really slow, or even disconnects, having a second internet connection, such as cellular or DSL, to fail over to saves the day.
We then began to reach out to Starlink customers directly, bringing them into the fold and working their ideas, requests, and feedback into our roadmap.
Finally, armed with a solid understanding of the issues facing these Starlink customers we created a body of helpful content to support and educate them on the synergy with Speedify.
With the groundwork in place, it wasn’t long before word spread amongst Starlink customers and a stream of similar posts began appearing across social media, including this detailed performance analysis from Reddit user Wknickless, showing how Speedify was able to combine other internet connections with Starlink to avoid Starlink’s sometimes slow performance.
Three Lessons for Startups From Speedify and Starlink
Right now, our engineers are further tuning Speedify performance for Starlink users; there’s more good stuff coming. In conclusion:
- Ride the wave: No matter how exciting I think Speedify is, if people are excited about Starlink, that’s the thing they’re going to talk about. We can either be in that conversation or not.
- Know your stuff: We have learned everything about Starlink that we can, and how we can make our product Speedify, work better with Starlink
- Create relevant content: That means going the extra mile to answer any questions from your new customer base and creating relevant content to support them such as blogs, support articles and social posts.
We might be a couple years from making it to Mars, but at least we got to hitch a ride on this Starlink rocket. Getting online there is another matter: here is how the internet could work on Mars.
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