Speedify Starlink Index — real-world performance from 5,806 Starlink users: 3.2% downtime, about 46 minutes a day for always-on connections

Speedify Starlink Index
Sep 23 – Oct 6, 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 5,806 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

~46 min

for an always-on dish · 3.2% of connected time unreachable

Median latency

54 ms

typical-period p90 65 ms

Avg packet loss

0.19%

vs 0.05% on Comcast

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.
Verizon7.3 ms
AT&T3.6 ms
T-Mobile2.5 ms
Starlink1.2 ms
Comcast0.8 ms
What Starlink users pair with
72%
of users

72% ran at least one other connection simultaneously — 4,181 of 5,806 users. Cellular is the most common backup.

Cellular 52% Cable / DSL 36% Corporate 11%
5,806 users · 155 countries · 1.05M records · passive measurement, aggregates only Full dataset →