Speedify Starlink Index — real-world performance from 6,043 Starlink users: 3.4% downtime, about 48 minutes a day for always-on connections

Speedify Starlink Index
Sep 2 – Sep 15, 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 6,043 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

~48 min

for an always-on dish · 3.4% of connected time unreachable

Median latency

55 ms

typical-period p90 67 ms

Avg packet loss

0.16%

vs 0.08% on T-Mobile

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.
Verizon6.2 ms
MTN Nigeria3.6 ms
AT&T2.6 ms
T-Mobile2.5 ms
Starlink1.3 ms
What Starlink users pair with
71%
of users

71% ran at least one other connection simultaneously — 4,316 of 6,043 users. Cellular is the most common backup.

Cellular 53% Cable / DSL 36% Corporate 11%
6,043 users · 158 countries · 1.08M records · passive measurement, aggregates only Full dataset →