Starlink Suffers Worldwide Outage (mirror.co.uk) 43
Longtime Slashdot reader gbkersey shares a report from The Mirror: Elon Musk's satellite internet Starlink has been hit with a global outage preventing thousands of users from accessing the internet. According to DownDetector, reports of issues began to surge around 8pm GMT, with nearly 60,000 global users affected at the peak of the outage. "Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution," the company said in a post on X. "We appreciate your patience, we'll share an update once this issue is resolved."
Outages are being reported across the U.S., as well as along the Ukrainian frontline. Meanwhile, more than 10,000 people in the UK have logged issues with Starlink since 8pm this evening. "The majority of the reports (64%) are concerning a total blackout, while the rest point to internet problems," the report says.
UPDATE: Michael Nicolls, VP of Starlink Engineering, wrote in a post: "Starlink has now mostly recovered from the network outage, which lasted approximately 2.5 hours. The outage was due to failure of key internal software services that operate the core network. We apologize for the temporary disruption in our service; we are deeply committed to providing a highly reliable network, and will fully root cause this issue and ensure it does not occur again."
UPDATE #2: Starlink said in an update at 5:18 PM PT: "The network issue has been resolved, and Starlink service has been restored. We understand how important connectivity is and apologize for the disruption."
Outages are being reported across the U.S., as well as along the Ukrainian frontline. Meanwhile, more than 10,000 people in the UK have logged issues with Starlink since 8pm this evening. "The majority of the reports (64%) are concerning a total blackout, while the rest point to internet problems," the report says.
UPDATE: Michael Nicolls, VP of Starlink Engineering, wrote in a post: "Starlink has now mostly recovered from the network outage, which lasted approximately 2.5 hours. The outage was due to failure of key internal software services that operate the core network. We apologize for the temporary disruption in our service; we are deeply committed to providing a highly reliable network, and will fully root cause this issue and ensure it does not occur again."
UPDATE #2: Starlink said in an update at 5:18 PM PT: "The network issue has been resolved, and Starlink service has been restored. We understand how important connectivity is and apologize for the disruption."
Back up already (Score:3, Informative)
It's already back up, has been for 10 minutes or so.
Re:Back up already (Score:5, Funny)
It's already back up, has been for 10 minutes or so.
Slashdot: old news for nerds, stuff that once mattered.
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On the other hand, if /. posted a story every time Spectrum had an outage somewhere, the entire front page would be full of what looks like dupes.
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Can you spot the difference?
"Starlink suffers worldwide outage"
"Spectrum had an outage somewhere"
If Spectrum suffers a worldwide (or even country wide) outage, I fully expect a story on Slashdot.
It's remarkable that a modern global network can suffer such a wide outage.
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Slashdot: Get Off My Lawn, You Kids!
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Extra points if you're commenting on this via Starlink.
And -10 points if you actually subscribed to it.
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This but unironically.
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Extra points if you're commenting on this via Starlink.
Why thank you!
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At what point is Starlink or Elon Musk specifically responsible for internet-enabled warmongering?
Don't let Starlink or Musk kick your bee in the bonnet. It's a just proxy war between the US and Russia.
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Both mine and my daughters house has no internet connectivity (we are in adjoining cells) through starlink.
my dish is reporting obstructions, even after a reboot
Re: Back up already (Score:1)
No its not. It's still down and been down for 2.5 hours
Re:Back up already (Score:5, Interesting)
Well, in my case, the outage lasted around 3 or 4 hours, which is atypical, because their uptime is pretty good, so I think it's Slashdot-worthy. Plus, I was wondering if this had to do with the recent solar activity, though reports seem to indicate it was a global issue, which could mean it was a networking problem rather than something related to space weather.
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Name them and ban them.
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Actually I was going to post that I wish I could mod whoever did it as '+1 Funny', because technically the topic is that Starlink is down so my post was literally off topic.
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And... that's what happens when you have a satellite in orbit.
Y'know, line of sight is a thing, too.
(I'm fine with my Verizon and if that goes down, got my cell phone... if both are down, have books and my ham radio)
They're Heerrrreeeeee (Score:2)
The aliens are taking out our satellites.
Somebody get Buckaroo Banzai on the blower. Stat!
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More like Jeff Goldblum.
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You mean... Dr. Sidney Zweibel?
Those guys call him New Jersey
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Hey, what's that watermelon doing there?
ATC? (Score:1)
Remember, kids, this is what was proposed as a more reliable option for air traffic control.
Re: ATC? (Score:2)
Yes, a single drunk ATC controller, which we already have systems in place to catch is clearly equivalent to all ATC centres in the entire US losing their radar and radios simultaneously, and for multiple hours.
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How reliable is ATC currently, versus how reliable would ATC be when powered by Starlink? For it to be more reliable it only has to be more reliable - not perfect
You are right, but some things need to be perfect. Which means you don't rely on a single network whether Starlink or any other.
People have come to accept these mass outages as if they are inevitable. In fact, they are MASS outages because of the size of the network and the number of people using it. If Windows has a flaw millions of users are effected. If there were a multitude of different operating systems out there each with a small share of the market it wouldn't matter. The mass outages are a direct
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100 bucks says (Score:2)
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Meanwhile, back at Slashdot (Score:3)
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Above and to the right of this article I see an advert for beef. Sorry but Slashdot ads are personalised. You clearly want some Starlink. Google is telling you you NEED STARLINK!
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Just above and to the right of this article, appeared an ad for Starlink.
You see ads? NoScript and UBlock Origin make websites look a little weird sometimes, but holy shit, compared to a base Chrome browser experience, it is heaven. All the blinking, reflowing, etc is entirely gone. Oh, and no ads.
Am I "stealing"? Yes. Fight me.
What happened? (Score:2)
DevOps update?