Starlink Monitoring Guides
Practical guides to monitoring your Starlink on desktop: obstruction, latency, drop rate, power, and more, read straight from your own dish.
How to Monitor Your Starlink: The Complete Guide
A complete guide to monitoring your Starlink connection: 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
What counts as a good Starlink ping, and why does it vary? Here's what typical Starlink latency looks like, why spikes matter more than the average, and how to 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 guideIs There a Starlink App for Linux?
Yes: Nexus Telemetry is a native Linux app that reads your Starlink dish's live telemetry over the local network, on Ubuntu and other distros. The official app is mobile; this covers the desktop.
Read guideIs There a Starlink App for Mac?
Yes: Nexus Telemetry is a native macOS app, Apple Silicon and Intel, that reads your Starlink dish's live telemetry over the local network. The official app is mobile; this covers the desktop.
Read guideIs There a Starlink App for Windows?
Yes: Nexus Telemetry is a native, signed Windows 11 app that reads your Starlink dish's live telemetry over the local network. The official app is mobile; this covers the desktop.
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
Seeing obstruction warnings or brief Starlink dropouts? Here's what the obstruction percentage and sky map actually mean, and a practical order of fixes from easiest to hardest.
Read guideHow Much Power Does Starlink Use?
Starlink power draw varies with activity and dish model, and the spec-sheet maximum isn't your real average. Here's what to expect, why it matters for off-grid and marine setups, and how to measure your own.
Read guideWhich Starlink Satellite Are You Connected To?
Can you tell which Starlink satellite your dish is using right now? Not exactly, but you can make a solid geometric estimate. Here's what's possible, what isn't, and how to work it out.
Read guideStarlink 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 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+