Starlink satellite internet by Elon Musk is now as fast as fiber broadband. Almost

Starlink which now has close to 90,000 active users has almost superseded the speed of traditional satellite internet.

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite has matched up to the speed of the broadband, a speed test has found. Starlink which now has close to 90,000 active users has almost superseded the speed of traditional satellite internet. A new report by Ookla speed test has revealed that the speed of the Starlink Internet has improved a lot, and it is now close to the speed offered by wired broadband. A couple of Months ago CEO Elon Musk had announced that company will enable global coverage after crossing the “strategically important threshold” of 69,420 active users. The Ookla speed test report had compared HughesNet, Starlink and Viasat during Q2 2021 and found all of them encouraging. “Starlink was the only satellite internet provider in the United States with fixed-broadband-like latency figures, and median download speeds fast enough to handle most of the needs of modern online life at 97.23 Mbps during Q2 2021 (up from 65.72 Mbps in Q1 2021). HughesNet was a distant second at 19.73 Mbps (15.07 Mbps in Q1 2021) and Viasat third at 18.13 Mbps (17.67 Mbps in Q1 2021). None of these are as fast as the 115.22 Mbps median download speed for all fixed broadband providers in the U.S. during Q2 2021, but it beats digging twenty miles (or more) of trench to hook up to local infrastructure,” the report said.