SpaceX: Starlink Speeds Have Increased 50% This Year

If you subscribe to Starlink, have you noticed faster internet speeds? SpaceX says download and upload rates for its satellite internet service have significantly improved since January. SpaceX’s VP for Starlink Engineering, Michael Nicolls, tweeted a graph charting this year's speed increases. Although Starlink.com already publishes expected speeds across each US state, Nicolls’ graph seems to focus on the median speeds during peak hours across the entire network. The graph shows that median download rates for Starlink were between 140Mbps and 160Mbps in January, but have since risen to 210 to 220Mbps—or about a 50 percent increase.