Starlink Monitoring Guides
Practical guides to monitoring your Starlink on desktop: obstruction, latency, drop rate, power, and more, read straight from your own dish.
Starlink for Installers and Professionals: The Field Guide
The professional workflow for Starlink installation: site survey, commissioning, verification, customer handover, and fault diagnosis. What to check, what to record, and what to hand over.
Read guideHow to Install iPerf on Windows
There is no official iPerf3 installer for Windows, but winget install ar51an.iPerf3 gets you a maintained build in one command. The exact steps, the manual zip route, the firewall gotcha, and why iPerf3 over iperf2.
Read guideIs It Starlink or the Wi-Fi? How to Diagnose a Fault
Run the same test from two places at once: from your device, and through the Starlink router's own API. If the router-side result is clean and the device-side is not, the fault is in the local network, not the dish.
Read guideHow to Do a Starlink Site Survey
The Starlink app picks the mount position and handles alignment; the dish's own obstruction map, first drawn in about an hour and settled within a day, confirms it. How to survey a Starlink mount location with data, not guesswork.
Read guideHow to Verify a Starlink Installation
A verified Starlink installation shows stable latency, a drop rate near zero, and a quiet event log across a 20 to 30 minute soak test, with obstruction confirmed by the app and the dish's own map. The professional workflow, and how to hand the customer proof.
Read guideStarlink Monitoring: The Complete Guide
Starlink monitoring: what the official app hides, which metrics matter, and how to track obstruction, latency, drop rate, and power in real time on desktop.
Read guideWhat's a Good Starlink Ping? How to Read Latency
A good Starlink ping is typically 25 to 50 ms. Consistency matters more than the average: a steady 40 ms beats a 25 ms average that spikes to 200 ms. How to read Starlink latency and tell a real problem from normal behaviour.
Read guideWhy Your Starlink Dish Repositions Itself
Some Starlink dishes physically re-aim themselves, sometimes around a firmware update, with no warning and often no performance impact. Here's why it happens, why it's usually harmless, and the simple fix.
Read guideStarlink Desktop App for Linux
Nexus Telemetry is an independent desktop app for Starlink on Linux, for Ubuntu and other distributions. It reads live telemetry from your dish over the local network. Starlink's own app is for phones and tablets only.
Read guideStarlink Desktop App for Mac
Nexus Telemetry is an independent desktop app for Starlink on Apple Silicon Macs. It is notarised by Apple, and it reads live telemetry from your dish over the local network. Starlink makes no desktop app for macOS.
Read guideStarlink Desktop App for Windows 11
Nexus Telemetry is an independent desktop app for Starlink on Windows 11. It is signed, and it reads live telemetry from your dish over the local network. Starlink's own app is for phones and tablets only.
Read guideStarlink Removed Dish GPS: How to Get It Back
In May 2026 Starlink removed dish GPS from the local API, then restored it for Priority plans only. If your monitoring, RV, boat, or Home Assistant setup relied on it, here's what changed and how to restore location.
Read guideA Friendlier Alternative to starlink-grpc-tools
starlink-grpc-tools is powerful but it's a build-it-yourself project. If you want the same local Starlink telemetry without assembling gRPC, a database, and Grafana, here are your options.
Read guideWhy Does My Starlink Keep Dropping?
Brief Starlink dropouts are usually normal. Frequent or persistent drops point to obstruction, hardware or power, weather, overheating, or congestion. Here's how to tell which, and what to do.
Read guideStarlink Obstruction: What It Means and How to Fix It
Starlink obstruction means something blocks the dish's view of the sky. It is the most common fixable cause of dropouts. What the obstruction percentage and sky map mean, and the fixes from easiest to hardest.
Read guideHow Much Power Does Starlink Use?
Starlink's published averages run from 20 to 40W for the Mini to 110 to 150W for the Performance dish, measured at the wall. What affects draw, and how to measure your own dish for off-grid and marine setups.
Read guideWhich Starlink Satellite Are You Connected To?
The dish does not report which Starlink satellite it is using. You can estimate it from the dish's pointing direction and live orbital data. How the estimate works and where it breaks down.
Read guideFree Starlink Desktop Apps: How to Spot a Good One
Free Starlink desktop apps are everywhere and quality varies. Five checks tell you if one is any good: signing, account access, updates, first-run behaviour, and the paperwork.
Read guideSee what your Starlink sees
Download Nexus Telemetry and get your first reading in under a minute. No account needed, no setup required.
Also available for Linux · Requires macOS 12+, Windows 11, or Ubuntu 22.04+