Starlink to double maritime speeds to near 1 Gbps by end of December, no new dish needed
XFreeze · x · 2026-09-26
Starlink says maritime customers with the Performance Gen 3 terminal should see roughly 2× throughput by end of December, taking peak download speeds from 475 Mbps to nearly 1 Gbps.
- No new dish required — the gains come from network and service upgrades
- V3 satellites are designed to add dramatically more capacity to the constellation
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