Starlink Faster Than Rivals, but All Short of Fixed Broadband: Ookla

SpaceX's Starlink broadband service tops geostationary operators HughesNet and Viasat, though all three satellite operators fall short of the median download speeds for fixed broadband providers, Ookla's Speedtest said Wednesday. It said its Q2 data, based on millions of Speedtest user tests, showed Starlink had "fixed-broadband-like latency figures and median download speeds fast enough to handle most of the needs of modern life," with 97.23 Mbps download, compared with HughesNet's 19.73 Mbps and Viasat's 18.13 Mbps. It said Q2 U.S. media download speed for all fixed providers was 115.22 Mbps. It said only Starlink had median latency "anywhere near" fixed broadband in Q2, at 45 milliseconds vs. fixed broadband's 14 milliseconds.