Starlink Gaming and Streaming Break for Different Reasons Starlink is good for streaming and mostly good for gaming: Netflix recommends 15 Mbps for 4K, Starlink says users typically get 45 to 280 Mbps, and on the Speedify Starlink Index for 29 September to 12 October 2026, Starlink’s median latency was 55 ms with jitter averaging 1.2 ms. The catch for … Read More
Normal Starlink Ping: 23 ms at the Dish, 85 ms for a Typical Starlink User
Why Starlink Ping Looks Different in the Starlink App, a Speed Test and a Game Normal Starlink ping is about 23 to 26 ms from the dish to the Starlink ground station and 45 to 85 ms for the whole trip to a server, and under 100 ms works well for calls and games. On the Speedify Starlink Index for … Read More
How Often Starlink Goes Down: Rarely Network-Wide, Speedify Starlink Index Shows
When Starlink Drops, the Cause Is Usually One Dish, Not the Starlink Network Starlink rarely goes down across the whole network: the last worldwide outage, on 24 July 2025, lasted about two and a half hours, and in 31 days of Speedify Starlink Index data between 5 September and 11 October 2026, no day looked like one. The average Starlink … Read More
Starlink Reliability, Measured All Day: How the Speedify Starlink Index Works
The Speedify Starlink Index Measures Starlink All Day, Without Speed Tests Starlink internet connections on the Speedify Starlink Index worked 96.75% of the time from 24 September to 7 October 2026, about 47 minutes a day offline, across 5,823 Starlink users, 4,147 Starlink dishes and 155 countries. A speed test can’t show that number. A speed test measures a Starlink … Read More
SpaceX Starlink Passes 10 Million Users: Video Breakdown of Growth and Revenue per User
With the SpaceX IPO coming soon, Starlink has crossed 10 million subscribers and $12 billion in revenue, but Starlink’s average revenue per user is down 18%. Alex Gizis and Speedify engineers discuss four reasons the average revenue per user is falling: Starlink makes 3,000 times more from an airline than a home user, many Starlink enterprise and Starlink roam users … Read More
Mars Internet Speed and Starlink: Why Mars Needs a Separate Internet Network
The Interplanetary Network and How It Would Help Internet Work on Mars Could the internet ever work on Mars? This piece explains the “interplanetary network” – a plan led by internet co-inventor Vint Cerf to link Earth, Mars, and spacecraft into one system – and why Starlink-style satellites can’t simply be copied to another planet. It’s a plain-language look at … Read More