SpaceX Starlink satellite Internet speed has exceeded 300 Mbps

IT House reported on May 22 that SpaceX’s Starlink satellite Internet service has achieved another phased speed measurement result. Today’s results show that the service achieved download speeds of 301 Mbps, making it one of the fastest broadband services out there, but there’s still plenty of room for improvement in latency.

Starlink is an internet constellation of small satellites in low Earth orbit, designed to provide global internet coverage, suitable for areas with low to medium population densities. Musk said last year that its speed would double to 300Mb/s, and the latency would gradually drop to about 20ms. He claims that Starlink will cover the entire Earth in 2022, followed by an increase in range.

Currently, on a global scale, Starlink exceeds the nominal broadband download speed in most of the regions where it operates, but the upload speed is severely asymmetric and the latency is extremely high.

It is reported that a Reddit user shared the above speed test results. @DullKn1fe claims he tested it in the early hours and his Starlink was able to deliver 301 Mbps download speeds. DullKn1fe went on to add that he lives in rural Wisconsin in the northeastern continental United States, which is sparsely populated and has no other users in his area.

Ookla measured Starlink’s median U.S. download speed at 105 Mbps in the fourth quarter of last year. Ookla noted that the fastest median download speed achieved by the Starlink internet service was in Miami-Ida County, Florida, at 191Mbps. The slowest was 64.95Mbps in Columbia County, Oregon.

A German Starlink user later reported that his service had managed to achieve 250 Mbps download speeds and 30 Mbps upload speeds, and European users said the test was conducted with generally slower speeds throughout the day.

IT House understands that another German user reported a download speed of 560 Mbps last May, but it seemed to be a flash in the pan.