Two Starlinks, Starlink and Cellular, or Starlink as the Backup Yes, one Starlink account can have two Starlink dishes: a Residential account can hold up to 8 Starlink kits and a Business account has no limit, each with a separate subscription. For staying online, though, a second dish shares the first dish’s weak spot: both Starlink dishes run on one … Read More
Starlink Business SLA: 99.9% Excludes Dropouts Under a Minute, and the Speedify Starlink Index Counts Every Dropout
What Starlink’s 99.9% SLA Covers, and What a Business Still Has to Plan For Starlink’s business service level agreement (SLA) promises 99.9% uptime every billing period on Local Priority and Global Priority plans, with a 20% service credit when Starlink misses the target. On the Speedify Starlink Index for 29 September to 12 October 2026, Starlink users on Speedify measured … Read More
Starlink for Remote Work and Video Calls: Enough Speed, but Plan for Short Dropouts
Starlink for Remote Work: The Numbers Behind a Frozen Video Call Starlink works for remote work: more than half of Starlink users on Speedify have a typical latency under 100 ms, and a 1080p Zoom call needs only 3.8 Mbps up. The weak spot is dropouts: on the Speedify Starlink Index for 29 September to 12 October 2026, Starlink users … Read More
Three Disadvantages of Starlink: Uneven Latency, Daily Dropouts, Problem Dishes
Starlink’s Three Real Disadvantages, With Numbers Starlink’s three measurable disadvantages are latency that varies from user to user, with one Starlink user in ten above 295 ms; about 46 minutes a day offline, 61 on RVs, boats and portable setups; and trouble that piles up on one Starlink dish in ten. The numbers come from the Speedify Starlink Index: 5,994 … Read More
Starlink Speed Test: 45 to 280 Mbps Is Typical, but the Test Misses Dropouts
A Starlink Speed Test Sees 20 Seconds. The Day Has 86,400. A good Starlink speed test result falls inside the range Starlink says users typically see: 45 to 280 Mbps down, 10 to 30 Mbps up and 25 to 60 ms of latency on land, with most users above 100 Mbps down. What the test misses is the rest of … Read More
How Much Starlink Obstruction Is OK: 70% of 4,263 Dishes Are Under 1%
Starlink Obstruction: Where One Dish Stands Among 4,263 On the Speedify Starlink Index for 29 September to 12 October 2026, 69.7% of 4,263 Starlink dishes had less than 1% of the sky blocked, and 8.7% had more than 10%. Small percentages still rank: a dish with 3% of the sky blocked has more sky blocked than 78% of the dishes. … Read More