BREAKING: Starlink’s broadband performance in the U.S. has more than doubled in just one year. 🛰️🇺🇸 According to Ookla, 40% of Starlink Speedtest users reached the FCC’s 100/20 Mbps broadband benchmark in the first half of 2026, up from 18.9% in 1H 2025. 17 states now have 50%+ of Starlink users reaching the benchmark, compared with zero states a year earlier. Starlink is rapidly closing the connectivity gap in rural America. 🚀

Weekend project: A tiny CLI extension to measure your download speeds from the HF CDN ⚡️ How to run it: hf extensions install julien-c/hf-speedtest hf speedtest If you run it, share your output here ⤵️

SpaceX's Starlink is getting significantly faster across the U.S., while also attracting more customers from traditional DSL, cable, and fixed wireless providers, according to a new Ookla report. Highlights: • Starlink urban users are also growing faster than rural users. • Median upload speeds surged 42% year-over-year, from 14.63 Mbps in 1H 2025 to 20.73 Mbps in 1H 2026, and improved in all 50 states and D.C., with gains ranging from 25% to 70%. • The number of Starlink Speedtest users testing in urban areas grew at more than twice the rate of rural users from 1H 2025 to 1H 2026. Urban users grew faster than rural users in every state but Alaska and Hawaii. • Starlink latency improved in nearly every state. Median multi-server latency improved year-over-year in 49 states and Washington, D.C. SpaceX's next-gen Starlink V3 sats will help improve speeds and latency significantly. Full report:

First Starlink referral just hit (still pending). Glad to see someone out there about to experience what it’s like to get internet that works so reliably you’ll forget how to run a speed test. Feel free to dm if you want a code for a free month.