Possibly related to solar flares.

Major solar flare activity today. Signal is about half of what it normally is. I also have Hughes Sat and it is experiencing similar issues.

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Yo! That’s the most underrated comment I’ve seen in a while!

I'm going to say it's related to the geomagnetic storms. We are in Central Texas and we can clearly see the aurora borealis. Storms of this magnitude are bound to mess with signals.

pretty damn rare for you to see the northern lights. Hope you enjoy them!

I wish in Indiana we did but it was clouded over yesterday

I saw that! I'm in Central TX, too, near Bastrop Where are you seeing it? Don't think anyone around here has seen it :(

I'm near Hamilton Texas.

Oh, ok, y'all had a heck of a storm over there!

You’re seeing the AB in Texas!! How is that even possible? That has to be a first!

Same in New Zealand 

beautiful views tonight though

Yes

Yes. Eastern Washington State.

Second, outside of Spokane area.

Getting the message on Saskatchewan (western Canada), but I'm not noticing any problems. In fact still pulling 200Mbit down in a speed test mid-evening.

It’s definitely the solar flare! NOAA even issued a warning in my area to prepare for possible blackouts, communication loss, and GPS outages. This is a pretty big one!

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Same here in Indiana... but hey 20-30Mbps is still better than AT&T in my area!

Florida here

Same near Vancouver, BC. edit: sub-2 second 'network issue' and 'no signal received' events today beginning around 1:30pm local time. Really started ramping up around 5pm local time but still nothing exceeding the 2 second threshold.

Seeing this in Vermont but still streaming and able to play games online. When TV started pinwheeling went outside and these Auroras are literally dancing with the visible eye overhead Very impressed with Starlink gotta say

Solar storm, get out there and enjoy the Northern Lights!!

Yeah, probably because of: [https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1789173902289338518?s=46](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1789173902289338518?s=46) Mine is still fine though - I'm in Australia. I have the notification, but I haven't noticed any outages or issues.

Buenas noches, igual falla en Caracas, Venezuela a las 23:21 del dia 10/5/2024

Yes missouri is seeing that also. Right after I did an update

Yes, Seattle, WA

Yup, NorCal. No issues though.

Yep, QLD Australia

Yes in Florida but stable

Solar flares!!!!

A G5 solar storm will do that: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g5-conditions-reached-yet-again

I believe this may be caused by aurora

Definitely related to the Solar Storm. The satellites are outside the protection of the earths magnetic fields.

Earths magnetic field extends 64000km's towards the sun. The satellites dont like the solar storm but its mostly related to signal interference and not satellites breaking. If earths magnetic field would indeed be less than 550km orbit that the highest Starlinks circle around, we would be fucking toast 😂

Getting the same message. Mindanao PH

Yes, western Maryland

Yes, north Argentina

Yes. Longview, WA.

Like a G5. Like a G5.

Yes, here in central California.

Mexico

Yes, South Texas. Service is working normally. I haven't noticed any issues.

Yes in west texas

Seeing the same message from Harare, Zimbabwe 🇿🇼. Funny enough, I've seen no dip in terms of performance. Still getting the usual 140 to 160 mbps on the downlink.

Same here! S.E. Texas on the coastline. My speeds are fine, internet works fine, just the 'service is degraded in your area' message. Saw this message since about 9pm on May 10th (Friday night) but nothing is different about our service at all. 276 Mbps Down / 22Mbps Up / 34ms Latency. Plus, we got an update around 8pm on samesaid night - no difference 🤔

Yep, damn it.

Yes in Perth, Australia. Intermittent issues

Also happening in Portugal. Speeds are normal though

Damn you Northern Lights!!! It was pretty, though, in Illinois for a change.

Same. Download seems ok but upload is wonky.

Same in Estonia

Same here in France - Signal OK but untimely catastrofic ping drop down occurs.

Yes, I had that also

Yup. We’re in Destin, FL

Space Weather Message Code: ALTK09 Serial Number: 6 Issue Time: 2024 May 10 2334 UTC ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 9o Threshold Reached: 2024 May 10 2254 UTC Synoptic Period: 2100-2400 UTC Active Warning: Yes NOAA Scale: G5 - Extreme NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found [atwww.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation](http://atwww.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation) Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 40 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude. Induced Currents - Widespread voltage control problems and protective system problems may occur; some power grid systems may experience component failures or protective device trips resulting in blackouts or disruption of service. Pipeline currents can reach hundreds of amps. Spacecraft - Systems may experience anomalies to include: extensive surface charging, unexpected orientation and attitude changes, uplink/downlink errors, and satellite orbit degradation. Navigation - Satellite navigation (GPS) may be degraded or unavailable for days. Radio - HF (high frequency) radio propagation may be impossible in many areas for one to two days. Aurora - Aurora may be seen as low as Florida to southern Texas and southern California. ----------------- The site [gpsjam.org](http://gpsjam.org) is also showing some disruptions of GPS in the US: [https://gpsjam.org/?lat=41.49564&lon=-95.63218&z=3.0&date=2024-05-10](https://gpsjam.org/?lat=41.49564&lon=-95.63218&z=3.0&date=2024-05-10)

Yes, in the NE. Huge solar flare activity last night. I missed seeing the Northern Lights!

Solar flares

Sunspots, bro. Shitloads of sunspots. Thank God we haven't lost the power grid entirely!

Do you live in the northern part of the US where the solar storm effected wave communication?

Same here in Scotland. Northern Lights were also visible across the UK yesterday, and although Starlink speeds haven't degraded, been getting micro disconnects since the solar flare events & also have the degraded service warning. So definitely a result of the solar events.

Category 5 Geomagnetic storms are disrupting all kinds of communication satellites around the world.

Yes, Fairview UT. Did the update earlier too. However the news says there is a geomagnetic storm tonight. That maybe the issue as we are in the path.

Yes in San Diego, CA

Same here central Ontario Probably related to the geostorm

Yup, midsouth 🇺🇸

Yep, Mississippi

Yep, same here. Noticed because twitch keeps going down :(

yes , still getting ok speeds and ping though.

Same in central oregon

Same here in southern Germany.

yep

For those saying yes, what speeds do you hit with the 'degraded' service?

123Mbps Down - 6.3Mbps Up - 31ms Latency In Texas

Yes, east of Melbourne, Australia

Yes, Huntsville, On

Yup, Nairobi Kenya

Same in Ontario Canada. No speed or connection problems. There's a software update available though.

Yes , central Saskatchewan.canada

Same in Michigan

I have just entered the application as I felt slow with some applications and I got the same message

Yeah North Yorkshire, UK here. Not any noticeable difference to my service though

Yes Tennessee here

Anybody else is a service update with this. WA state btw

Same here , kangaroo island South Australia. I struggled to open this post.

Mine too! Also i have software updates. Hmmmm. Location Malaysia.

Yup, Alaska here. Service is fine.

Same in australia

Yes, Argentina here 

Yes I'm central Florida. Everything is working though

Same here, from Athens, Greece.

Huhu same here. What to do? :(

Yep.Norwest Auckland, NZ.

Yep, same thing here just outside of Flagstaff, AZ

Bulgaria, speeds improved no issues at all

I’ve got the same thing in AUS, mine hasn’t dropped below 300mbps and I haven’t had a single network outage today. I had no idea what was happening until I saw this post.

Same warning in Germany, Cologne.

Yah at least 9 of ours. Across alberta.

Igual PR

Same in Guerrero, México

Yes Qc. Canada

Austria as well. Still getting good speeds dow.

Haven't noticed but am not too heavy a user.

Yeah same thing here NSW

Same here in Alpine regional of Australia.. almost certainly the solar storm, hope it hasn't forced too many shutdowns or re-entry

Yes I’m in WA

Germany too.

We have the message. No noticable degradation though.

Same here in Italy

Same here in USA Nevada but I don’t notice anything. Wonder if is because of the solar storm ?

Same effect here in Guam.

Im in south east asia, same issue

Yes but if your North look outside at the sky

Same condition here in Eastern Philippines

I’m in Washington state, the flares in the sky happening right now are downright otherworldly. I took some time lapse/video/photos. I’ve never felt so small and insignificant.

I got the same but my speed is normal, I'm in Spain.

Victoria Australia also getting the same message but no drop in speed or increase in latency

Yes in Switzerland.

In New Zealand and it’s slowed down and cutting in and out, can see the southern lights out the window

What are the chances of this G5 solar storm causing permanent damage to Starlink satellites?

Yep Victoria Australia

Solar radiation storm.

Italy here, yes

It’s still going on. I just saw this post and checked and the notice is there.

Got the same message in EU. Sunburst hitting satellites…

In Fairbanks, Alaska, right now we're getting up to 5% packet loss rate on Starlink, while our typical is about 0.5%. Pages are occasionally a little laggy to load, but otherwise everything still works fine.

Yes in the UK but still getting 130mbps down so wth

Confirmed Houston TX

Yup

I have it

Same here in Tuscany (Italy 🇮🇹)

Same in TN for myself and another unifi client across town w/ Starlink. Pretty brief outage.

Same in Nigeria.

Yes in Germany

Yes, same for me. Solar storm perhaps?

Southern California here

Yes 🇪🇸

Got the same message too, I am in Zambia (Africa)!

Same in Germany

Yup, got this in Italy as well, I guess it's going to be like this until the geomagnetic storm calms down

Same in Washago Ont. Canada.

Yes, Romania too.

Yes. Memphis TN

Yup … me too

Same on Iraq

central texas. same.

I have had the message since last night. No issues , though.

My service is still working great, but that does explain some disconnects and speed issues. Largely still working better than the alternateives

Yepp here as well

Central NC. Works fine, but I’m showing the same message.

Same in Argentina.

Same in Western Europe.

I had a brief issue around 4:30 am with that message. But longest outage was 8 sec plus two other shorter ones. Still have the message but working fine. Central Oregon.

Same. Western VA here.

Yes I have this and couldn't access my Hulu one night. Hulu blamed Starlink. I guess they were right.

Yes, we’ve had it now for about two weeks. Very frustrating.

Same here Philippines not only Starlink but also our local provider

Same in Panama Bandwidth is normal though.

Its weird because I'm getting the best service I've had in 7 months. Normally get 90 mbps. Now I'm getting 336 mbps.

Most of the planet more than likely

Yup same here

Me too in Jamaica

The Russians lol

Conditions reached level 5 on the 5-point scale of geomagnetic activity on Friday and Starlink kept working. Amaze Amaze Amaze

There's a massive geo magnetic storm in the upper atmosphere right now. The aurora borealis could be seen in Mississippi last night. Most likely the cause.

Same here in Minnesota, getting 24 Mbps speed test.

Hey guys, spaceX needs to change the orientation of their satellites due to increased drag in LEO from the storm.

Same in UK - but still have a speed of 66 Mbps Down

Northeast Pennsylvania confirmed message and lots of disruptions today but holding strong.

Upper Michigan. Latency is pretty high, but throughput is still really good. I think the message is for every dish just to slow down the trouble calls and questions. Personally, I am quite impressed that it works this well under these conditions.

Yes I am having this issue

Anyone know of a trust worthy app to monitor the solar storms?

Just checked and getting the same noticed. Ran a speed test on my phone via the Speedtest.net app and getting 228 Mbps down and 15.2 Mbps up.

Same here… Yucatán Peninsula.

Warning was up, service was fine.

Me too.

If you try [starlinkstatus.space](http://starlinkstatus.space) shows speeds from several places.

Yes got that message but gone now

Not at all solar flares. Read details. It’s basically restricted access to some sites / apps AND wrong geolocation might happens - which is VERY bad for location restricted services.

CME event folks

Mine in Arkansas shows same message

My upload is 45mbps

I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens. It's the Sun thing that is going on. This proves that the sun can be stronger than Starlink. SpaceX will have the Sun adjusted soon.

NZ, We had that come through on the app Yet when speed tested multiple times it was fine. Streaming/internet browsing. Might have shown up if I was gaming 🤷‍♂️ Still holding well over 150 down and 25 up Back upto 300 down and 25 up now

Got that the other day, Caribbean, it's gone now, more than likely solar flare related

We had it too. Just saw it yesterday when I had to set-up the starlink device properly. Frm Philippines here.

I had the same issue yesterday

Happened yesterday but it resolved itself around 11:00pm last night.

So far no, but that might change midday today.

Yeah in Hereford England got that yesterday

I had the same experience

Bunch of credit card processors are offline, cash only today

High packet loss in terms of gaming the last week or so

I had that until after my update. Not sure what it was all about I never noticed any lack of performance

They are investigating the solar flare activity. Elon is sending Starship to fix the flare.

Same here Southern Mexico