Starlink

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

About this app

Starlink is designed to deliver high-speed broadband internet to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive, or completely unavailable.

The Starlink app is here to help you:

• Identify the install location that will ensure the best quality of service
• Check for obstructions that can interfere with service
• Setup your Starlink hardware
• Verify your WiFi connection
• Receive alerts for service issues
• Access your connectivity statistics
• Identify devices connected to your network
• Troubleshoot connectivity issues
• Contact support

Ratings and reviews

It does what it's primarily intended to do mostly without issue, but I find that it often freezes or crashes when using certain functionality on my Android 10 device. (Namely in regards to looking up the network statistics for specific devices and doing the Obstruction checks.) Additionally, it uses an excessive amount of CPU power on my device: at least 12%, which is insane for the kind of app this is.

Something about the current version seems to be doing alot more idle processing than it needs to. If I open the app and switch to another and don't close it, I get a "this app is overloading the cpu" notification saying its taking a whopping 12.6% of cpu in the background. Otherwise its a great service. Stutters in connection, but those are gradually being fixed.

Used to work fairly decent, but recent updates have made the obstructions tool flaky. We have the roaming service and often use the obstruction check when setting up camp. As of late the app frequently doesn't show the green dots to be collected. Sometimes trying 8-10 times will get it to work. Options for network config are limited. App works for the other basics, such as stowing and rebooting. Overall it's mostly useful.

What's new

Bug fixes and improvements.