Speedify Starlink Index — real-world performance from 5,309 Starlink users: 3.1% downtime, about 44 minutes a day for always-on connections

Speedify Starlink Index
Aug 13 – Aug 26, 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 5,309 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

~44 min

for an always-on dish · 3.1% of connected time unreachable

Median latency

50 ms

typical-period p90 65 ms

Avg packet loss

0.15%

vs 0.06% on Vtal

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.
Verizon5.2 ms
T-Mobile2.9 ms
AT&T2.7 ms
Starlink1.2 ms
Vtal1.1 ms
What Starlink users pair with
70%
of users

70% ran at least one other connection simultaneously — 3,720 of 5,309 users. Cellular is the most common backup.

Cellular 52% Cable / DSL 36% Corporate 12%
5,309 users · 142 countries · 1.01M records · passive measurement, aggregates only Full dataset →