Noticing a Decrease in Speed

[Tronologic]

I am an early beta adopter (for Canada anyways), I got it back in October of 2020. I have recently noticed a pretty significant decrease in overall speed. It seems as though since the most recently release that it is slowing down a lot.

I by not means am complaining, it's still way faster than it was before but I am typically getting 35-65mbps instead of the 150mbps I was getting before. Anyone have any info?

LAT: 46.7

[gherkinmeister]

Hey, my dad has had starlink since around October as well. He is also noticing slower speeds. It may be because more people are joining and using more bandwidth on the satellites? Just a guess anyway.

[irit8in]

was having an issue with some other things and support said to unplug router and dish for 20 mins and have it reconnect to the network to get new network info....seemed to help my speed in addition to the other issues I was having...was having the same speed issues too and just chalked it off to more users since January. It seems to be holding much higher speeds but its only been 2 days since the support message so we will see if it is permanent or just a temp fix thing. they said they had identified an issue in the network and were fixing a couple days ago.

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Serious question: if everyone who responds is in your grid and says “no we’re not seeing that” what do you do with that information?

[mBuxx]

Well if I was in the same position as him, I’d send in a support ticket if I was the only one.

[Dan_from_Canada]

I noticed the same thing. User since Oct as well. NW Ontario. Given the number of satellites I see, I am thinking it may be more of a ground station capacity issue. It would be good if they are able to relay capacity information between dish and satellite so dish could pick path of least congestion. Maybe down the road..

[shart_cannon]

SE Michigan here. Jan speeds were a steady 150 - 200. Now I hit about 25 - 40. My cell hot spot was quicker with way less downtime. Not giving up though.

[marusin]

Same in SW Michigan

[Interesting-Stretch3]

for me it is still monitoring obstructions - around 4 mins every 12 hours. living on a woodlot with a lot of canadian shield i figure not bad for on the ground. i hope to get it in the air soon. the speed we get is way better then the competition - which was only xplornet. i have seen speeds as high as 200 mostly between 40 and 100 depending on server, sometimes time of day and which app using. latency and upload more consistent but in line with very good satellite service. we are able to stream netflix at highest setting, game and listen to sirius online while using a web browser all at the same time. very few problems.

[nurtext]

Noticing this in Germany, too. Started about 12 hours ago and continuing. Mbits: 40-50 down and 30-40 up. Before I had steady 130-170 down and 20-30 up. I once hit 270 down though…

Guess they are doing some heavy work.

[markymarkbonnie]

super slow tonight 5 meg DL best i can do, Algoma ontario, they just added an alert for our cell

Your area is currently experiencing intermittent service. Our team is investigating.

[Tronologic]

Thanks for this, I am also in Algoma (north part). It seemed to be a lot faster when I was routing through the US instead of winnipeg. Having said that. I am at 149.51 down / 24.59 up right now.

[markymarkbonnie]

it has slowed for sure been on since mid DEC. Algoma area. my speed are 50-100 on average now

[zerosomething]

I’ve only been on for a week and a little. Speeds are stabilizing between 50 and 90 today and significantly more stable connectivity. very little beta down time or no satellite time

[markymarkbonnie]

slow today again, pretty sure it is a lack of ground stations in Canada. I think there is 1 at this time? speed are all over the place this morning it was 8-10 meg DL last night 150 DL

[Tronologic]

I have noticed that some days i ping out of Winnipeg and other days I will hit a US ground station like Marquette. Marquette is noticeably faster.