AboutNow Available – Worldwide and Local Current Starlink Performance
Another volunteer project to help those using and evaluating Starlink.
The blue dot circled above is our dish in the center of Vermont. Volunteers run software which collects statistics every 15 minutes and uploads them to update the tables and the map at https://starlinkstatus.space. You can see below that we have been averaging download speeds of 143Mbps, upload around 12Mbps, and ping times of 43ms. Below that you can see our most recent updates including the percentage of time our dish was obstructed (0% happily).
There are also tables with country and region-wide averages. Of course, there’s also a smart phone app to see all this. None of this is affiliated with Starlink or SpaceX (although I hope they pay attention to it); it was developed by frequent software contributors Tysonpower and Mike Puchai.
There are at least three uses for Starlink Statuspage:
- For those who are broadband-deprived, helps evaluate Starlink as a solution.
- For those with Starlink, shows whether they are getting the performance they should expect.
- For planners, shows the geographic spread of broadband access provided by Starlink.
Starlink Statuspage won’t reach its full potential until there are many more users willing to run the client and share their own status. Here’s where you are needed if you have a Starlink dish. At the moment, however, you have to be something of a nerd to run the client. The original client software, which is available free on Github, only runs on Linux or on Linux subsytems on Windows or Macs (see Note to Nerds below).
If you are not a nerd but do want to share data in the interest of better connectivity, you probably will have to wait until there is a Windows and/or Mac native client available. I may try to put something together for Windows if there’s enough interest. If you would be willing to run a client in the background of your Windows or Mac machine to help populate this map and are not Linux-proficient, please fill out this form.
Update: I've out together a more-or-less self-installing native Windows client for Windows 10 or better. It has not been tested on many machines yet; but, If you'd like to contribute data and run Windows normal;y it, you can get instructions here. It's free, also, of course.
Note to nerds
Following the instructions on Github, it’s easy for any nerd to install this on a Linux machine. The instructions are for a newly-installed Raspberry PI 3B+. I don’t have a Linux machine (yet) but followed the instructions and was able to install in the Windows Linux Subsystem (WLS) using Ubuntu.
There is one caution, however: the script uses the Ookla Speedtest CLI. The current Windows version of the CLI crashes when it’s run in WLS Version 1. This is a known problem which Ookla says they will fix. I have verified that Linux version of the CLI does work in WLS Version 2.
However, before I upgraded my WLS to Version 2 (which is a pain), I developed a work around using the Windows CLI invoked from the Ubuntu shell script. If you’d like the work around, please use the comment field in this form to request it and I’ll send it to you. If there’s sufficient interest I’ll post on Github and/or give to the Starlink Statuspage developers to post.The alpha self-installing Windows client I have developed is largely scripts for Windows Powershell. Powershell comes with Windows 10 and you don't have to know anything about it to do the install and run the client,
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