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
Starlink for Gaming and Streaming: Why a Stream Survives a Dropout and a Game Doesn’t
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
In-Flight Wi-Fi Is Slow Because Every Passenger Shares One Connection: What Speedify Can Fix
How to Get Faster, Steadier Internet on a Plane In-flight Wi-Fi speed depends on the airline, the plane and the internet system it uses, but on every flight, all the passengers share one satellite or air-to-ground internet connection (antennas on the ground that send internet up to the plane). The more people online, the slower it gets for each of … Read More