Still, demonstrating faster speeds is going to be key for SpaceX, as it’s vying for funds from an FCC auction slated for October of this year. “Once the space lasers are fully deployed, Starlink will be one of the fastest options available.” SpaceX does hope to roll out the Starlink service to rural or hard-to-reach areas where even lower speeds might be an improvement of the status quo. Such speeds are on the low end compared to traditional broadband internet, although they may still be faster than speeds currently available in many rural areas of the US. In mid-August, Reddit users posted tests from supposed beta testers using the Starlink constellation who were receiving average download speeds of between 11 Mbps and 60 Mbps. The 100 Mbps speeds are also slightly more impressive than what early tests have shown through Ookla’s tool, a service designed to test download and upload speeds. “And over time, we will continue to add features to unlock the full capability of that network.” “Our network, of course, is very much a work in progress,” she said. Tice also clarified that there is still a lot of work to be done with Starlink, too. SpaceX noted in the filing that it would need to deploy its first full constellation of more than 4,400 satellites to get up to those speeds.
It sounds impressive, but it’s still not quite the gigabit speeds that SpaceX promised in its original filing with the Federal Communications Commission. “Our network, of course, is very much a work in progress.”
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