Speedify Starlink Index — real-world performance from 4,680 Starlink users: 3.1% downtime, about 45 minutes a day for always-on connections

Speedify Starlink Index
Oct 15 – Oct 28, 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 4,680 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

~45 min

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

Median latency

45 ms

typical-period p90 65 ms

Avg packet loss

0.16%

vs 0.06% 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.
Verizon5.6 ms
AT&T2.8 ms
T-Mobile2.2 ms
Starlink0.9 ms
Comcast0.8 ms
What Starlink users pair with
73%
of users

73% ran at least one other connection simultaneously — 3,432 of 4,680 users. Cellular is the most common backup.

Cellular 52% Cable / DSL 35% Corporate 12%
4,680 users · 153 countries · 1.06M records · passive measurement, aggregates only Full dataset →