Is Starlink Down? How to Check, and How Speedify Keeps You Online

Speedify Keeps You Online Whether Starlink Is Down for You or for Everyone

To find out if Starlink is down, open the Starlink app. It shows whether your Starlink dish is online and, if it isn’t, the reason, including when Starlink itself reports an outage. If an outage tracker like Downdetector shows a sudden jump in reports at the same moment, Starlink is down for many people in your area, not just you.

Starlink does go down. Short drops happen all the time, because your Starlink dish switches satellites about every 15 seconds, and now and then there’s a wider outage. Below: every way to check Starlink’s status, how to tell your own problem from a Starlink outage, and how Speedify keeps you online either way by using Starlink together with 4G/5G cellular, Wi-Fi, wired Ethernet or another satellite dish.

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Starlink Internet Connection Drops Happen to Everyone

Speedify measures thousands of Starlink users in more than 140 countries. In September 2026, fixed Starlink dishes went offline for about 38 minutes a day on average, and Starlink dishes on RVs and boats for about 46 minutes a day.

All Starlink dishes also see short dropouts roughly every 15 seconds as the Starlink internet connection switches from one moving satellite to the next. 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.

How to Check if Starlink Is Down

  • The Starlink app. The Starlink app shows whether your Starlink dish is online and names the reason if it isn’t, for example obstructed, no signal received, or a service outage.
  • dishy.starlink.com or 192.168.100.1. Open either one in a browser while you’re on Starlink Wi-Fi to see the status, uptime and recent outages of your Starlink dish.
  • The Speedify app. If you use Speedify with Starlink, the Speedify Starlink Control Center shows live status, speed, ping, uptime and alerts for each Starlink dish.
  • The Starlink Help Center. Starlink explains what each status and alert means, and how to fix it, at the Starlink Help Center.
  • Outage trackers. A sudden jump in reports on a site like Downdetector means a wider outage, not a problem with your Starlink dish alone. Starlink’s official website is starlink.com: a status page on another address, like starlink-internet.com, isn’t Starlink’s own, so treat it as one more outage tracker and confirm in the Starlink app.

For what each status and alert in the Starlink app means, see how to check your Starlink status.

Is Starlink Down Just for You, or for Everyone in Your Area?

The Starlink app is the fastest way to tell. If it shows your Starlink dish obstructed or with no signal received, and no service outage, the problem is on your side: your Starlink dish’s view of the sky, a cable, or the Starlink router. If the Starlink app reports a service outage, or outage trackers fill up with reports at the same moment, Starlink is down across the area and there’s nothing on your end to fix.

That decides your next step. A problem on your side means troubleshooting. A Starlink outage means waiting, or using another internet connection.

How Often Does Starlink Go Down?

There are two kinds of Starlink downtime. The first is short drops: your Starlink dish switches from one satellite to the next about every 15 seconds, and each switch can cause a drop too short to notice on a web page but long enough to freeze a video call. See why Starlink drops every 15 seconds.

The second is outages that last minutes or longer, caused by something blocking your Starlink dish, bad weather, a software update, or, less often, a problem across the Starlink network. To see how often your own Starlink dish goes down, check its uptime in the Starlink app or in the Speedify Starlink Control Center.

What to Do Once You Know Why Starlink Is Down

If the problem is your Starlink dish, start with the basics: restart it, check for obstructions in the Starlink app, and check the cable. If your Starlink dish is online but your devices have no internet, see how to fix Starlink with no internet connection. If Starlink is down across your area, you can only wait or switch to another internet connection. See what to do when Starlink is down.

Stay Online While Starlink Is Down, with Speedify

Checking whether Starlink is down is easier when you aren’t losing a call while you do it. Speedify uses Starlink together with 4G/5G cellular, Wi-Fi or a second Starlink dish at the same time. The moment Starlink drops, Speedify moves your traffic to your other internet connections, so your calls and streams keep running while you check the status at your own pace. Speedify needs that second internet connection: if Starlink is your only internet connection, Speedify can’t keep you online during an outage.

To watch your Starlink dish’s status all the time, see how to monitor Starlink outages and uptime with Speedify, or see how Speedify combines internet connections.

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