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Starlink, with average upload speeds of 12.04 Mbps, was much faster than HughesNet at 2.54 Mbps and Viasat at 2.88 Mbps. All fixed broadband had an average upload speed of 19.49 Mbps.
A study in 2021 showed that the Starlink satellites orbit at 550 km altitude, with an average RTT latency of 45 ms. [39] Another study in 2022 showed that the latency of the Starlink network is 1.8 ms to 22.8 ms more than the latency of terrestrial networks according to a measurement study conducted in the Metro Vancouver area.
This is a sortable list of broadband internet connection speed by country, ranked by Speedtest.net data for March 2024, [1] and with M-Lab data for June 2023 [2] Country/Territory Median
According to Starlink's service plans page, the lowest tier of Mobile Priority costs more than Mobile Global ($250 versus $200 a month), and also caps usage at 50 GB of traffic per month before ...
Starlink is booming and probably coming to a plane, cruise ship, or RV near you. Internet traffic from Elon Musk's satellite web service more than tripled in 2024, per Cloudflare data.
The domain speedtest.net has been used to host a speed test since 2000, and was acquired by Ookla in 2006. [12] As of 2011, Ookla claimed 80% market share and was one of the top 1000 most popular websites. At the time, Ookla derived its revenue primarily from fees paid by companies to license custom speed test and proprietary testing software.
Shares of Cloudflare, which provides content delivery services, jumped 7.2%. The two companies are working on a way to increase Starlink's network of mini data centers around the globe that could ...
Starlink provides satellite-based internet connectivity to underserved areas of the planet, as well as competitively priced service in more urbanized areas. [94] In the United States, Starlink charged, at launch, a one-time hardware fee of $599 for a user terminal and $120 per month for internet service at a fixed service address. [95]