[Starlink] Starlink on United

[Starlink] Starlink on United

[Steve Golson]

Hi all,

I took two flights over the weekend on United, with Starlink. 200+ Mbps from gate to gate. Quite impressive.

On our second flight, while still standing in the terminal, I was able to log on to the aircraft's Starlink WiFi. That's pretty good WiFi range! A mere 30 Mbps on that connection though, with some packet loss.

-Steve

[Starlink] Re: Starlink on United

[j pan]

Thanks Steve and all: if you encounter starlink (or other inflight
wifi) on your next flight, please have some tests per
http://tinyurl.com/starlinkuser page 2 so we can correlate too. cheers

On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 10:08 AM Steve Golson via Starlink
<starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I took two flights over the weekend on United, with Starlink. 200+ Mbps from gate to gate. Quite impressive.
>
> On our second flight, while still standing in the terminal, I was able to log on to the aircraft's Starlink WiFi. That's pretty good WiFi range! A mere 30 Mbps on that connection though, with some packet loss.
>
> -Steve
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[Starlink] Re: Starlink on United

[Frantisek Borsik]

Do you have any latency measurements? :-) You can use also our Bufferbloat
speedtest next time:
https://bufferbloat.libreqos.com


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On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 7:08 PM Steve Golson via Starlink <
starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I took two flights over the weekend on United, with Starlink. 200+ Mbps
> from gate to gate. Quite impressive.
>
> On our second flight, while still standing in the terminal, I was able to
> log on to the aircraft's Starlink WiFi. That's pretty good WiFi range! A
> mere 30 Mbps on that connection though, with some packet loss.
>
> -Steve
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[Starlink] Re: Starlink on United

[Steve Golson]

On 1/28/26 1:19 PM, Frantisek Borsik wrote:
> Do you have any latency measurements? :-) You can use also our Bufferbloat speedtest next time:
> https://bufferbloat.libreqos.com
> 
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Frank____

Oh I'll try that next time.

I ran ping, traceroute, Cloudflare speed tests. I've shared all that with J Pan @ UVic.

-Steve

[Starlink] Re: Starlink on United

[Ulrich Speidel]

What was the weather like at the ground ends? Any rain?

On 29/01/2026 8:13 am, Steve Golson via Starlink wrote:
> On 1/28/26 1:19 PM, Frantisek Borsik wrote:
>> Do you have any latency measurements? :-) You can use also our 
>> Bufferbloat speedtest next time:
>> https://bufferbloat.libreqos.com
>>
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Frank____
>
> Oh I'll try that next time.
>
> I ran ping, traceroute, Cloudflare speed tests. I've shared all that 
> with J Pan @ UVic.
>
> -Steve
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[Starlink] Re: Starlink on United

[Steve Golson]

On 1/28/26 2:34 PM, Ulrich Speidel via Starlink wrote:
> What was the weather like at the ground ends? Any rain?
For both flights, clear skies on the ground at both ends, and all the way along. No rain or snow.

-Steve

[Starlink] Re: Starlink on United

[j pan]

Thanks Steve! and for those of interest, please see the ocr'ed below.
this flight from ewr to pwm is all under the new york city pop, so no
ipv4 or ipv6 change for this connected phone, other than the temporary
connection to at&t 5g+ while the phone is still at the gate in the
terminal due to the high packet loss (17.5%) to the starlink wifi
router in the metal can instead

# tuesday, jan 27, 2026, ua4401, newark, new jersey to portland,
maine, crj-550, n541gj, one starlink dish
# time, location, test provider, download throughput (mbps), upload,
latency (idle, download, upload in ms), jitter (idle, down and up),
loss (%), ipv4, ipv6
7:36, (at gate), cloudflare, 30.7, 9.14, 39.0, 47.9, 48.0, 35.0, 20.7,
61.4, 17.5, , 2605:59c8:2063:af08:6113:1fd9:2feb:da36
7:42, , whatismyip.com, , , , , , , , , , 129.222.231.56,
2600:387:C:7017::9 (at&t 5g+)
7:47, , whatismyip.com, , , , , , , , , , 129.222.231.56,
2605:59c8:2063:af08:4487:74fe:4829:3543
7:49, , cloudflare, 216, 23.5, 44.5, 54.0, 24.0, 16.3, 26.7, 2.95, 0,
, 2605:59c8:2063:af08:4487:74fe:4829:3543
7:50, , whatismyip.com, , , , , , , , , , 129.222.231.56,
2605:59c8:2063:af08:4487:74fe:4829:3543
9:33, elizabeth (departed 3min ago), cloudflare, 265, 22.1, 27.5,
32.5, 28.5, 5.21, 12.8, 4.47, 0, ,
2605:59c8:2063:af08:4487:74fe:4829:3543
9:34, , whatismyip.com, , , , , , , , , , 129.222.231.56,
2605:59c8:2063:af08:4487:74fe:4829:3543
9:37, , cloudflare, 267, 29.6, 26.0, 90.0, 27.0, 6.37, 242, 3.89, 0, ,
2605:59c8:2063:af08:4487:74fe:4829:3543
9:38, , whatismyip.com, , , , , , , , , , 129.222.231.56,
2605:59c8:2063:af08:4487:74fe:4829:3543
9:46, torrington (16min ago), cloudflare, 251, 31.3, 41.0, 57.0, 24.5,
8.11, 37.5, 5.11, 0, , 2605:59c8:2063:af08:4487:74fe:4829:3543
9:47, , whatismyip.com, , , , , , , , , , 129.222.231.56,
2605:59c8:2063:af08:4487:74fe:4829:3543
9:59, hancock (28min ago), 242, 23.4, 33.5, 38.5, 25.0, 8.74, 41.4,
3.21, 0, , 2605:59c8:2063:af08:4487:74fe:4829:3543
9:59, , whatismyip.com, , , , , , , , , , 129.222.231.56,
2605:59c8:2063:af08:4487:74fe:4829:3543
10:05, milton mills (37min ago, arriving in 10min), 291, 23.0, 33.5,
41.0, 29.5, 8.53, 41.4, 5.84, 0, ,
2605:59c8:2063:af08:4487:74fe:4829:3543
10:21, (landed?), 270, 31.5, 28.5, 34.0, 26.0, 5.84, 28.9, 4.53, 0, ,
2605:59c8:2063:af08:4487:74fe:4829:3543
10:21, , whatismyip.com, , , , , , , , , , 129.222.231.56,
2605:59c8:2063:af08:4487:74fe:4829:3543

On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 11:46 AM Steve Golson via Starlink
<starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>
> On 1/28/26 2:34 PM, Ulrich Speidel via Starlink wrote:
> > What was the weather like at the ground ends? Any rain?
> For both flights, clear skies on the ground at both ends, and all the way along. No rain or snow.
>
> -Steve
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