🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-07-24
One outage story that caught my eye today: Starlink
Starlink experienced a network outage for about 2.5 hours on Thursday; NetBlocks reports that connectivity dropped to “16% of ordinary levels”
By Richard Lawler / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
Indeed. I even managed to capture it with a RIPE probe.
For perspective, a Starlink outage becoming newsworthy (i.e. longer than a few hours) this isn’t that common. You would need to look back ~3 years for a similar coverage.
Starlink users in the US, the UK, New Zealand, Mexico, and elsewhere complained of a multi-hour outage; the Starlink app reported “Degraded Service”
By Thomas Ricker / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
