How we calculate status
No hidden formula. Here's exactly how a report becomes a status.
No hidden formula. Here's exactly how a report becomes a status.
StarlinkDown doesn't monitor Starlink's network directly — nobody outside SpaceX can. Instead, every number on this site comes from real visitors clicking a category button to say what they're seeing right now. We count those reports per country over a rolling time window and turn that count into a status.
Right now every country uses the same default threshold: at least 5 reports in the last hour moves a country to elevated, and 15 reports moves it to down. Below that, a country shows as normal. The global status shown at the top of the page is simply the worst status across all countries.
These starting numbers are deliberately low and uniform because we don't yet have enough real traffic to know what "normal" looks like for, say, Brazil versus Malta. As volume grows we'll tune thresholds per country instead of using one global default.
Anonymous reporting only works if it's hard to fake. Without going into exploitable detail, submissions go through a few automated checks — including a rate limit per visitor and signals that flag obviously automated traffic — before they're counted. We tune these safeguards over time as needed.
We don't ask for a name, email, or account. Your IP address is never stored — it's hashed with a private salt just long enough to apply the rate limit above, and that hash isn't linked to anything else. There's no tracking across visits and no data is sold or shared.