New analysis from Ookla shows mixed results for SpaceX’s low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite-based Starlink services: a big jump in downlink speeds in the US and Canada, due to the slowness of uplinks.
Ookla reports that Starlink has increased its midline speed in the United States by about 40% compared to the first quarter of 2021 (from about 66 Mbps to about 91 Mbps) and its average downlink speed in Canada by about 60% (from about 62 Mbps to about 97 Mbps). .
But at the same time as that dramatic increase in download speeds, upload speeds have dropped significantly: in the United States, Sterlink’s upload speeds have dropped by about 33%, from 16.29 Mbps in the first quarter of 2021 to 9.33 Mbps in the first quarter of 2022, in Canada. This is a decrease of 23% compared to the quarter, which stood at 16.69 Mbps to 10.70 Mbps.
Moderate latency has increased slightly, from 40 milliseconds in the United States to 43 ms and in Canada from 51 milliseconds to 55 ms. Okla noted that “for many Starlink users, we suspect that these changes are negligible.”
Ookla’s recent blog post has seen Starlink’s performance in several countries around the world, and the service is performing particularly well in Europe as of the first quarter of 2022, with a median download speed of over 100 Mbps in every European country where it is located. Commercial availability. Read more details from Ookla Here.
Ookla’s tests from the fourth quarter of 2021 show that Starlink’s speed hit the average download speed of 100 Mbps in the United States, achieving a service-level baseline for the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund program.
