The cause of the Global Starlink failure was technical work

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SpaceX explained that a recent large -scale failure in Starlink has led to software updates. According to the company, during the procedure on ground computing clusters, the network was overloaded, which led to the refusal of basic services. PCMAG writes about it.

Disruptions began on July 24, around 22:00 Kyiv time and touched the whole world, including Ukrainian military. In peak hours, Starlink serves more than 6 million customers worldwide. The overwhelming majority managed to restore access to the network in 2.5 hours, but individual subscribers complained about connection problems until the next day. It was the longest failure in Starlink since the service.

After recovery, some of the users noticed improvement of the connection speed – up to 250 Mbps and above, while earlier the average rates were 110-150 Mbps. This suggested that the update was aimed at increasing network productivity.

At the same time, other users report further problems with speed and stability. The Starlink support page is currently recommended to restart equipment, including third -party devices.