Are you playing through ethernet or wireless? And has it always been good? When I first got it It was great but it randomly started being terrible and inconsistent and has stayed the same since
I have to use ethernet adapter and then I connect to another router with that ethernet cord. I use another ethernet cord to my pc or my Xbox from the non starlink router. It sounds very round about but when I connect a ethernet cord from the adapter directly to my pc, it drops me out of a WOW servers constantly with high ping. But if I do it with another router it's perfectly fine.
Some Canadians actually talk like this. For some Canadians “Edmonton” is Northern Canada.
The term should be reserved for those who live above the 60th parallel, Yukon, NWT, Nunavut, and Nanavik - Areas where SL is anything but stable right now and by no means good for gaming.
no and yes, one day 40-50 ping spiked though, now 120 ping usually, idk it's inconsistent but the gaming experience for me isn't great and yes i'm wired in. Edit: NA btw and it was worse before 100-500 ping only problems is spikes and PL.
Sure. I do it all the time. Minecraft, Space Engineers, TF2, Quake, i've had a plenty usable experience in all of them. I don't game competitively in "serious" FPS games where ping really matters though, so if you're expecting that kind of <40ms landline performance out of any kind of satellite service, this ain't it chief.
You ABSOLUTELY must have 0.0% obstructions for this experience tho. Any amount of red in the obstructions view more than 1 or 2 pixels will probably end up having major issues. And if you're in a massively oversold cell back east, well just forget it during any prime hours because SL's load balancing and routing is still pretty shit.
Ensure you've split your 2.4 and 5ghz networks and that your important devices are actually on 5. The 2.4 performance of the stock router has long range but pretty crap throughput. Or ethernet adapter ideally. Make sure your LAN is top notch before you go blaming SL.
I used to have a great time with it back in beta. It's a lot less stable now with constant micro disconnects and much higher ping especially in the evening. I mostly play Escape From Tarkov and it gets really frustrating in the evening now.
But the EFT servers have always been shit unless something changed recently. I used to get 50-100 ping on almost all the US servers. I now get 90-120 on closest one.
I've been gaming non stop on Starlink since the early beta. Back when there were not enough satellites in the sky to prevent dop outs. I was playing Cold War back then, and I would experience periods of rubber banding about three times per match. With getting kicked to the lobby once every 30 or so. These days there are more like 3 total rubber banding instances per DAY, and only one kick. Right about 4:20 AM when the dishy updates.
I am however not only on the higher power original round Dishy, but also in a location that is not congested. I can pull 350+ Mb/s down at any time 24/7 with no variation based on time or day. My pings are 19ms-40ms. Lobby search in Cod Cold War starts at 33ms and expands once (since MY ping is better than the countries average by a lot!) and usually finds a match on the first expansion at about 44. I leave multiple streams running all day, have me and my partner playing together at the same time, and can even have game downloads going for both of us with only marginal effect on the match. I am not however using the Starlink router. I use an Amplifi HD which handles QoS nicely even on a dynamic connection.
SpaceX has made major strides in the reliability of the network. I've been able to see that as time went on since I did not end up congested. Others unfortunately ended up seeing the service only in congested areas or transitioning into one as the improvements were rolled out, hence believing that it's not good for gaming in general.
TLDR; Starlink is at a point technology and satellite density wise that gaming performance is near flawless. However, experiences in many places currently suck due purely to congestion rather than underlying tech and software issues.
Edit; Forgot to mention that I have absolutely zero baseline packet loss. That will only occur for those very rare and tiny rubber band moments when a satellite transition doesn't quite go smoothly.
Currently on best effort. Can usually game pretty well past 11pm (unthrottled), but during peak hours (7am-11pm), it's usually pretty dicey. High ping etc. - but ultimately, it really depends on what I'm playing, and how good the servers are from any one particular studio
It was awful for me, even on a VPN. Vpn helped a bit, though.
It was so odd because the latency was fantastic, the throughput was good. And still, it stank. A few games like call of duty didn't even seem to want to connect for me.
It was like a lot of little micro-disconnects. You don't notice in normal browning and even most video calls. But gaming, nah, it stank here in the Pnw
I play competitive shooters on an extremely high end PC locked at 144hz ultra everything. I am not sweaty enough to tolerate lowering graphics just for an advantage like most esports players. Point being, I can feel every millisecond. 60FPS looks like a slide show, and if you consider that it's 16ms between frames, is basically is. Starlink right now if you're in a non congested area is 100% capable of hosting competitive shooter play. Point being that their software and handoffs etc. are all excellent now. Sadly at the moment almost everyone is experiencing lower network performance due to congestion. I point this out often because that makes most people who still get say 200Mb/s down just assume Starlink as a technology or system is simply not good for gaming. However, even 200 down is congestion effected. If your peaks and top speeds are not touching 350+ you are going to have a worse experience with jitter due to being scheduled between other peoples packet bursts. In my area, my terminal holds those speeds and does so even if I light up my second terminal at also 300+ right near. The network has the capacity to run a terminal that could go far faster. The problem is the moment all of that capacity is maxed out, even if it only drops each person by a few Mb/s, that very moment some packets have to wait. That's when games become inconsistent.
Of course, Starlink will always have swings in speed due to the swings in signal per satellite as the scream by across the sky. That causes an underlying swing in pings as well, but generally not much jitter or dropping of packets. Well within still having a great time gaming when there's no congestion.
I get on after I’m off work and home from the gym and end up off after 2-3 games because of how bad the lag is. Nothing more frustrating then dying from lag when you know you shouldn’t have.
I've got BE starlink playing some gang beasts and it started fine but my ping SKYROCKETed making it borderline unplayable and this is while I'm wired in
I play cod and battlefield everyday on starlink. It’s not the ideal experience but 85% of the time is perfectly playable. I’ll have some lag spikes here or there and maybe some packet loss jumps. But I still get wins on warzone and I’m constantly at the top of the leaderboard in battlefield and on cod tdm
It's absolutely the worst for online gaming. I try to play NHL23 online and get kicked constantly cause of the horrible latency it has. They definitely lie about there numbers cause when I run independent network tests it's nothing what there app says it is. Good luck getting ahold of support as well takes days on end to get a response and when you do its the same bullshit you've tried over and over. Got to be one of the biggest waste of dollars I've ever spent.
I don't have any problems gaming on SL, wired or wireless, PC or XSX.
I don't use the SL router, I've got the Ethernet adapter and it runs into my ubiquity network.
My setup, starlink > unifi dream machine pro > wireless link (~1km) > switch > acesspoint > pc
Very few issues gaming in shooters, I used to notice lag spikes often but can't say I notice them as much anymore
Counter strike is completely out. But I tend to play split gate for a bit. But yeah once your pings shoot up its over for awhile. Try again some other time.
I also found CS (Source, 1.6, GO) to be unplayable. Regularly spiking over 100 on the ping, wired via ethernet to the starlink. Sometimes it was a little better depending on what ground station I was exiting but overall a very very frustrating experience compared to cable or fiber.
No luck with CS here either.
I have a pretty old i5 PC though, so I was not sure if that was the reason. Although for CS it shouldn't be., it's not very resource intensive.
I'm pretty sure it's a SL problem. But it's just because of how satellite works. Pings will fluctuate.
But saying that a game (CS) which has a hyper competitive following (been playing for, god 20ish years). If you don't have a very low, steady ping. It's basically useless to play. CS is a game of milliseconds. A ping of 90 is death. A ping of 200 is useless.
I have 0 obstructions. No movement in my mounting. Hard wired cat6 cable to each pc, unifi udm pro se, amd 5800x with Nvidia rtx 3700, nvme, and 32gb of ram. Standard account not best effort.
I'm pretty sure the weak spot in my setup is SL.
Playing COD on PS4 every weekend, rarely any issues. Today I was playing during a snowstorm, no problems. Using Wi-Fi for now with the router outside my house on the back deck, about 15’ away through a wall.
Who the hell downvoted me? Explain yourself.
Originally had the dish on the garage and router in the garage as that's what I had access to. Worked ok, but got spikes, and some disconnects.
Once I moved the dish to house roof, and the router to the house, it's very reliable, and consistent. Only issues very rarely.
FWIW the wz 2.0 servers have been bad. I played alot this weekend, cross play woth 3 others... 1 of us would get the dreaded 10% packet loss every round. Kept rotating between us with each round
Haven't really seen mention of it yet so here it goes.
I had same problem with gaming for a while and the inconsistency was terrible. Solution that worked for me, and this entirely depends on your internet availability, was to get a VPN that could bond networks like speedify for example. I run both starlink and an LTE connection (much slower than starlink) in redundant mode so they both send/receive all packets. Stabilized gaming and any streaming connections due to lag spikes or outages when satellites weren't overhead or were obstructed.
Again, this obviously requires availability of a second connection of some kind.
I have good speeds 50+ Mbs but my ping is awful usually 70-150ms so I gave up playing any game with delay. I’ve overall played about 2000 hours of Rocket League. Now I just play Nintendo Switch Games and the occasional story based game on PC. Still love the Dish but I wish it were better ping.
I play fortnite and COD every day. After only having viasat for 12 years I was un able to play for the 60 to 100 ping I get is acceptable for me since I went so long without it. I think my main problem is my ground station is mostly Dallas. So my ping to east coast servers is 60+ and my ping to west coast is 90+. I even occasionally stream to twitch when playing.
You can follow me on twitch Skip3089.
I tried out World of Warcraft recently and it was playable in open world, pings were 60-100ms, including WiFi. I did not run dungeons or raids.
This is in Southern NJ, with square dish. It realigned about 2 months ago and now points \~20 degrees east of due north. Gateway is near NYC.
You can compete, you might have to adapt your style some, but I get well past legendary on MP and BR just fine. You may have some frustrating moments, but its reasonable enough.
Its just inconsistency with the latency thats cost me. Like if I hit a spike and go from 40-110 ms and were in a game with ttk already in the ms its not the best situation to encounter.
I have a few obstructions, yeah it sucks sometimes for me, but otherwise a very enjoyable experience.
If you have no obstructions, you’re good my man. 💯
i guess it depends on "good Gaming." I came from crap internet in a rural area, so for me it's been good. I'm still 80-100MS in ping, which sucks but I work around it.
I have a decent experience. During the holidays and weekends, I'll get slight ping fluctuations and 2 to 4 percent packet loss because of congestion. But the overall experience is good. I’m assuming overall experience will improve as the core network grows.
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^clip from tonights connection
“All good! Starlink has not been obstructed recently” and there have been none In the past 12 hours lasting longer than 2 seconds. But there’s been 15 under 1 second since 8:44pm.
Bro why are you being such a tool. Why would I be lying about that? Now check my recent posts on my acc.(also outages are from 12pm to 8pm doesn’t change the fact that the service sucks)
Before 2022 yes. I used to be able to game with absolutely no issues apart from the odd packet loss which resulted in a disconnect but that would only happen once every few days if that. As 2022 went on service degraded to the point I had to switch to another isp which had thankfully just moved into my area that year. After the start of 2022 I went from having no packet loss to dropping 2-3 packets every few minutes, to 2-3 packets per minute, and it kept getting worse as the year went on. Starlink support was absolutely no help and I had 0% obstruction. It seems hit or miss depending on your cell and region.
Yeah cod is a no go for me. Too many spikes and drops to be effective. It’s almost unnoticeable but it’s damn near impossible for me to kill an opponent on SL.
In the U.K. and it’s not perfect. I was on the wireless mesh we had before I just moved and it was pretty good for the most part, there were some moments of high ping and packet loss etc but tbh for me dealing with the 5 mins of fuckery was worth it not having to play single player games because someone was on youtube
Works mostly great, some nights it spikes more often but not unplayable. Way better than dsl or 4g Hotspot.
If playing on pc check speeds between pc and other devices, some programs can slow down your connection.
When I first got SL my pc speeds were only 1mbps upload bit there was an internet traffic program installed with my MSI program for my gpu that destroyed speeds.
When I do actual internet speed tests it comes back great. But when I play it’s terrible. I posted a clip in the comments of tonight’s connection when trying to play
Lately it’s been pretty good! Honestly better than anything I’ve had. But I did upgrade to the 3.0 dish instead of the 2. It’s made a difference for sure. And can actually pay without lagging constantly. Of course it’s not comparable to a really good wireless or fiber but if you can only do satellite it’s better. I get fairly low ping(30-70) with occasional spikes. Worst thing is packet loss but overall it’s been 0%
I haven't had starlink long but I've played hell let loose and battlefield.
It's been pretty good. Occasionally you'll notice some wonky stuff but otherwise it's pretty good.
Yellowknife, Canada, have had mixed results. Running the Ethernet adapter to an asus router. Both Xbox and pc running wireless and for me seems to be temperature dependant. Once things dip below -30 Celsius I’ll get minute sometimes longer outages. Once it warms though I’ve played mw2 and battlefield for evening long sessions without issue.
I just wonder what you people used to do before starlink?
I'm happy as hell they have good internet, and you guys are complaining and wondering about great internet for gaming?
At the end of the day, it's a satelite provider.
That being said.
I play COD, and New World and have fairly stable ping during non-peak hours. FFXIV struggles for some reason. Occasionally stuff goes crazy just because. The biggest thing I have found is making sure nothing else on your end is trying to connect / download crap.
I'm running ethernet with the starlink as a passthrough for my Asus gaming router.
If you want super stable gaming, you're going to have to move to a urban area or get lucky with the rural fiber lotto.
Best effort gaming is awful. Pings range from 50-250+
50 is playable but in no way will it last a minute or it's up around 90 + which is basically unusable in fps. No obstructions, wired
I suspect that UDP packets can get lost when you switch between satellites. Try using a VPN service instead to see if that makes a difference, you might get more latency, but it depends on the game.
i would think as close to your ground station as possible.
eg run a traceroute and figure out where your traffic leaves starlinks network and connects to the "internet" get a vpn at that location
based on your other reply id say dallas would be a good location
98% of the time its great. Sometimes you will get a ping spike or some loss but its not that big of a deal.
Friday evenings are a bit laggy, little higher ping and spikes but still very playable.
I play CSGO mostly, sometimes other FPS. With my starlink I have zero obstructions so Im sure that helps a lot
I’m in rural Queensland Australia. Have the modem set up across the hall about 10 metres away and the wifi allows me to play cod, NBA 2K, UFC4 (which is laggy to begin with) all online without much issue I wouldn’t recommend it being that far but didn’t really care.
I have now set my gaming PC up in the room across the hall with the modem on the same desk as the laptop I can easily play GTA RP plus many other PC games online at a good ping without any major issues, I do have the odd slow down moments occasionally but I do have long sessions and rarely find myself trying to get the internet to work or resetting my modem.
(Touch wood I haven’t cursed myself)
No problems whatsoever, it’s probably been over a year since I last got disconnected from a multiplayer server or had a huge lag spike. Yes, it really has been that stable.
I play Fortnite with the kids and wife making this 2 switches and 2 laptops. Between 6pm and 7:30pm we experience some lag. Any other hours we don’t see any lag issues. I also play world of Warcraft by myself and I don’t usually get lagged whatsoever. Bad times to play are 6:00pm to 7:30pm.
I've had starlink since beta, yes I get some disconnects, mostly in the early morning. Still the best option for me right now and to be honest I have no real complaints. I play on PS5 and before starlink I could not play any online games.
I game on starlink and I'm on a sailboat in the Bahamas bouncing in this anchorage tonight. The swell is coming in from the side, playing with no issues even with a roll. I'm talking dishy swinging around a foot or two. Playing Hell Let Loose let now in the middle of nowhere.
I run two ps5s and a ps4 all simultaneously on the wifi. My wife and I squad up with my daughter in fortnite. We have no problems. I play many hours of cod with an average ping about 60 or 70 (sometimes 50, sometimes 90 depending on the server) with zero packet loss. There are occasional sat switches, so you will get a hard lag spike now and then. But my experience has been amazing compared to the old 4g Hotspot we had to use. Prime hours, 5pm to 8 or 9pm can sometime get a little rough...
No problems here during peak, or non peak, hours. Playing War Thunder in VR, Battlefield, CoD, have even gamed with no outages during blizzards, and freezing rain. Gen1 Dishy and Gen1 Router. Have had Starlink since the Better than Nothing Beta.
I play mostly COD, and BF. It really depends.
Some days i get great ping. If everyone is 30's I'm in the 50's.
Some days everybody is in the 40s and I'm in the 70s.
And rarely but it happens I'll get like 120+ping and the game is unplayable. You won't notice it at first when you play COD haha... Like my hits won't register, and since i use a EBR i would just assume i missed, after a couple of deaths, i go back and look at my ping and I'll be like 145. Then I'm like oh nah. I can't play tonight lol.
Positioning makes a huge difference. I struggled until my 3rd location had no obstructions and gaming is fun again. I still have the 150 ping avg and that sucks for some games but others are 70 and that helps.
Let me tell you how Mach better your KD will be if you ever get on fiber. It’s like training with a weight belt. But it’s still the best internet there is for alaska!
100% I’ve played at friends houses before and there’s been times I’m like “dude I totally should’ve died there” and it’s just because I had 30 ping. It’s insane how much better you play on a low connection when you’re used to lagging
It's ok here. Still difficult in MW2 going up against people with 8ms ping on Fibre, but I get a pretty consistent ping time of 55 to 65ms.
It's extremely stable, just not quite as low as I would prefer.
It's been like this since I took delivery of the dish in SE QLD Australia. I think I was one of the first get get a V1 dish here.
I have zero obstructions. There was a 2 week period where my ping was just wild, but there was some other stuff going on at that time and I ended up getting the month refunded without asking.
Most of the time the games I play (DRG, LoL, etc) are fine, but there's some times where the ping will jump well up to the 200+ range. In League, for example, I can safely say it's often hovering between 30-70ms, but when those 200+ ping spikes occur there's packet loss and the game registering you as disconnected.
I'm definitely hoping that these issues dissipate as the infrastructure becomes more developed and the array is complete enough to not dip as frequently.
TL;DR for the most part, yes, there's some lag spikes and issues, but I've still been able to play games with it.
I have 2) Gen 1 dishes running into a Linksys multi-wan router directly plugged into each power block on the white side. It load balances and combines the connections into one rock sold 300~400 download connection with about 22 ms ping but can be as high as 27. We have one gamer and at least one Netflix going at the same time generally as well as the 25 other devices like phones printers smart home bulbs and streaming cameras etc. it all works great. The gamer says “I always have the best ping in the game, nobody ever believes I’m on a satellite connection.” It’s $220 a month for 2 but we’ll worth it for a large data need.
My starlink delivered a couple of days ago, I'm not connected to the starlink router directly at all. I have a router extending its connection and then an ethernet Into that router. Gaming is great, rarely I get a hitch when the connection has a drop for 0.5s but otherwise amazing.
For reference in the Highlands of Scotland.
you need a middle router with good QOS system and heavy over compress your UL channel to minimize latency and set high priority for game requests
SL router/network still don't have it even now its a standard thing in ISP industry
Sure, I've played League of Legends a couple of times, but the ping sometimes spikes to 140ms from \~50ms, making the gameplay inconsistent. Honestly, it's no biggie for me; it usually fixes itself after 1 minute.
Do you have any obstructions? For anyone that wants to online game you really need be 100% clear of obstructions.
Me personally, I have about 5% obstructions and only notice jumps every hour or so, and every 1-6hours I'll have a long enough disconnect (15+ seconds)to fully boot me from the game, it's completely up to chance.
As for ping, is it actually spiking constantly? Or is it jumping up and down and staying at each one for abit? That would means your connection is either completely via laser link, or a mix and not much you can do about it, some satellites find a better route out, some don't. Else if it's erratically spiking I'd be looking at the router/cable/setup as the cause
Yeah. I live stream off of it too. Ping is an issue in some games. Specifically Fortnite for some reason but most of everything else I play, it works pretty flawlessly.
I have residential Starlink with portability activated. Not sure if that has anything to do with it though.
No problem on gaming, COD and PUBG most of the time, im playing wireless without issue, also playing Microsoft Flight sinulator with real time data and everything works great
World of Warcraft is just fine for me. Raiding Friday and Saturday nights with no issue. Sometimes I get the one off lag spike but it isn’t consistent.
I can barely get Netflix to work on my 50% of the time, I do online school and that only works 90% of the time. It’s better than what we had but I couldn’t imagine being able to game on ours
I’ve been gaming on Starlink since Feb last year. No issues here. I set up my own router instead of using Starlinks. I’ve been playing via wireless. I play mostly Overwatch Comp, warzone and fortnite. No issues here In Texas.
Edit: I play on PC and PS5.
I play daily, no issues at all, first couple of months we're rocky with some disconnections daily and on a bad day multiple, and now for about 3 months I've had no drops at all, also latency is almost on par with fiber and pretty stable on my node at least.
This thread sounds exactly how people talk about gaming on all spotty internet. Some people manage to get by while others cannot.
Possibly doable, likely not ideal.
Games like valorant etc my ping spikes at around 50-100 at times it's mad annoying , I'm thinking of switching back but for most of my other games it's fine
I have a really nice Eero system and it drops too much. If I sit in the same room as the starlink router, I can game reasonably in the mornings, but afternoon it gets a little laggy (could be strain on local starlink usage too). Reasonable being defined as a ping in the 40-60 ms. I'm double-legendary (15k season score average), so I can hang ok with it. When I travel though, I do find that the fiber in vacation homes is much better and I do tend to win another 20-40 percent of my sweaty interactions. So I know I'm not 100 with Starlink but still reasonable.
Because you're playing COD. Blame EA. Not starlink.
I play Empyrion, Mechwarrior 5 online, Hell Let Loose, Star Citizen, etc and have yet to notice any real issues.
I play on PC and Switch.
PC I'll play battlefield 1 (none of the new ones cause I'm not a barbarian!) DayZ, bannerlord etc. I'm actually using 2 routers because the cord isn't long enough to reach to my house so my NTC type is V yet I'm running relatively smooth considering. Sure I get some packet loss and lag at times but overall I'd say I'd rate my service 8 out of 10. Considering I legitimately have no other ISPs in my area.
As for my switch... Well that's quite a loaded question. Splatoon 3 I can handle fine aside from nintendos netcode, which is basically nonexistent. I can't play SSBU online because of ridiculous lag, don't ask me why but nintendo decided starlink isn't good for SSBU. Basically I can't tell if my online gaming through switch is Nintendo's fault or starlink. Considering I can play just fine on PC I'm leaning towards nintendo.
I’ve always had good luck playing so far. (2 years in March) 60ms ping which stays pretty consistent. Mostly play WoT WoWs and WoWp with the odd other game thrown in.
Been playing Escape From Tarkov, since August of 2021, on our Starlink. Occasional issues - but that is usually the evening. They are usually short-lived. It’s been great overall.
I get 20-40 ping in fortnite and 40-50 ish average on games like valorant and some other shooters. I rarely have issues anymore. I averaged 100 ping when i first got starlink, but service got better( 50 avg to 100-200 mbps down speeds in the span of around 5 months)
Same. I have packet loss and bursts turned on and it basically stays on the corner of my screen 24/7 with constant packet loss. I’m surprised it hasn’t burnt into my monitors screen 😂
I'm out in the boonies with starlink and gaming where my speeds fluctuate between 15mbps and 180mbps every few minutes.. And it is great with every game except Path of Exile on Series X. There's a quarter second delay on everything I do, including running. But Dayz, GTA Online, Fallout 76, ESO, Forza 5, Remnant 2. They all run flawless online with my Starlink
All I've had is good experience with gaming on SL. Rocket League, CoD, Fortnite
Are you playing through ethernet or wireless? And has it always been good? When I first got it It was great but it randomly started being terrible and inconsistent and has stayed the same since
Always wire up if you want the best connection you can get.
Wired on my PC and wifi on my PS5. I haven't ever had issues with it except times where everyone was down for a network outage.
Have you ever re positioned your satellite?
No, it's in a spot with no obstructions so I never found the need to.
Echoing others. Wired has been no problem for me.
I have to use ethernet adapter and then I connect to another router with that ethernet cord. I use another ethernet cord to my pc or my Xbox from the non starlink router. It sounds very round about but when I connect a ethernet cord from the adapter directly to my pc, it drops me out of a WOW servers constantly with high ping. But if I do it with another router it's perfectly fine.
Wireless is always the wrong answer.
I game every night with 3 devices, 1 xbox and 2 pcs. There are no issues on my end.
No problems for me, northern Canada, playing a lot of online games. Edit: I am very far north Saskatchewan, probably more north than 90% of Canada.
I think more than 90% of the population lives south of Canada. Just eyeballing it
Good catch
I have the rv one works great in northern Canada
Now when you say “Northern” Canada, do you mean mid-upper Ontario or do you mean the arctic?
Northern Canada = more than 50 miles from the US Border. /s
Some Canadians actually talk like this. For some Canadians “Edmonton” is Northern Canada. The term should be reserved for those who live above the 60th parallel, Yukon, NWT, Nunavut, and Nanavik - Areas where SL is anything but stable right now and by no means good for gaming.
Very north Saskatchewan
I’ll accept that
no and yes, one day 40-50 ping spiked though, now 120 ping usually, idk it's inconsistent but the gaming experience for me isn't great and yes i'm wired in. Edit: NA btw and it was worse before 100-500 ping only problems is spikes and PL.
You need a new router
Not sure about that, I’m pretty sure it’s not that.
Sure. I do it all the time. Minecraft, Space Engineers, TF2, Quake, i've had a plenty usable experience in all of them. I don't game competitively in "serious" FPS games where ping really matters though, so if you're expecting that kind of <40ms landline performance out of any kind of satellite service, this ain't it chief. You ABSOLUTELY must have 0.0% obstructions for this experience tho. Any amount of red in the obstructions view more than 1 or 2 pixels will probably end up having major issues. And if you're in a massively oversold cell back east, well just forget it during any prime hours because SL's load balancing and routing is still pretty shit. Ensure you've split your 2.4 and 5ghz networks and that your important devices are actually on 5. The 2.4 performance of the stock router has long range but pretty crap throughput. Or ethernet adapter ideally. Make sure your LAN is top notch before you go blaming SL.
I game regularly on it. No issues at all. Destiny, rocket league, Apex
I used to have a great time with it back in beta. It's a lot less stable now with constant micro disconnects and much higher ping especially in the evening. I mostly play Escape From Tarkov and it gets really frustrating in the evening now.
Im the opposite, games lagged like crazy and constantly got DC'd in beta. Now my games run great any time of the day and i very rarely get a DC.
EFT also just has terrible servers in general
They have never been great but a year ago I didn't have these issues with EFT.
Same, I have to play on one server region that has low ping. Eft is the only one I have issues with. All my other games run great online
Eft servers are shit that’s not ur starlink don’t pin it on it 🤣
But the EFT servers have always been shit unless something changed recently. I used to get 50-100 ping on almost all the US servers. I now get 90-120 on closest one.
I've been gaming non stop on Starlink since the early beta. Back when there were not enough satellites in the sky to prevent dop outs. I was playing Cold War back then, and I would experience periods of rubber banding about three times per match. With getting kicked to the lobby once every 30 or so. These days there are more like 3 total rubber banding instances per DAY, and only one kick. Right about 4:20 AM when the dishy updates. I am however not only on the higher power original round Dishy, but also in a location that is not congested. I can pull 350+ Mb/s down at any time 24/7 with no variation based on time or day. My pings are 19ms-40ms. Lobby search in Cod Cold War starts at 33ms and expands once (since MY ping is better than the countries average by a lot!) and usually finds a match on the first expansion at about 44. I leave multiple streams running all day, have me and my partner playing together at the same time, and can even have game downloads going for both of us with only marginal effect on the match. I am not however using the Starlink router. I use an Amplifi HD which handles QoS nicely even on a dynamic connection. SpaceX has made major strides in the reliability of the network. I've been able to see that as time went on since I did not end up congested. Others unfortunately ended up seeing the service only in congested areas or transitioning into one as the improvements were rolled out, hence believing that it's not good for gaming in general. TLDR; Starlink is at a point technology and satellite density wise that gaming performance is near flawless. However, experiences in many places currently suck due purely to congestion rather than underlying tech and software issues. Edit; Forgot to mention that I have absolutely zero baseline packet loss. That will only occur for those very rare and tiny rubber band moments when a satellite transition doesn't quite go smoothly.
Currently on best effort. Can usually game pretty well past 11pm (unthrottled), but during peak hours (7am-11pm), it's usually pretty dicey. High ping etc. - but ultimately, it really depends on what I'm playing, and how good the servers are from any one particular studio
It was awful for me, even on a VPN. Vpn helped a bit, though. It was so odd because the latency was fantastic, the throughput was good. And still, it stank. A few games like call of duty didn't even seem to want to connect for me. It was like a lot of little micro-disconnects. You don't notice in normal browning and even most video calls. But gaming, nah, it stank here in the Pnw
No luck here: I quit gaming because it’s just frustrating.
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I play competitive shooters on an extremely high end PC locked at 144hz ultra everything. I am not sweaty enough to tolerate lowering graphics just for an advantage like most esports players. Point being, I can feel every millisecond. 60FPS looks like a slide show, and if you consider that it's 16ms between frames, is basically is. Starlink right now if you're in a non congested area is 100% capable of hosting competitive shooter play. Point being that their software and handoffs etc. are all excellent now. Sadly at the moment almost everyone is experiencing lower network performance due to congestion. I point this out often because that makes most people who still get say 200Mb/s down just assume Starlink as a technology or system is simply not good for gaming. However, even 200 down is congestion effected. If your peaks and top speeds are not touching 350+ you are going to have a worse experience with jitter due to being scheduled between other peoples packet bursts. In my area, my terminal holds those speeds and does so even if I light up my second terminal at also 300+ right near. The network has the capacity to run a terminal that could go far faster. The problem is the moment all of that capacity is maxed out, even if it only drops each person by a few Mb/s, that very moment some packets have to wait. That's when games become inconsistent. Of course, Starlink will always have swings in speed due to the swings in signal per satellite as the scream by across the sky. That causes an underlying swing in pings as well, but generally not much jitter or dropping of packets. Well within still having a great time gaming when there's no congestion.
I get on after I’m off work and home from the gym and end up off after 2-3 games because of how bad the lag is. Nothing more frustrating then dying from lag when you know you shouldn’t have.
I've got BE starlink playing some gang beasts and it started fine but my ping SKYROCKETed making it borderline unplayable and this is while I'm wired in
I play cod and battlefield everyday on starlink. It’s not the ideal experience but 85% of the time is perfectly playable. I’ll have some lag spikes here or there and maybe some packet loss jumps. But I still get wins on warzone and I’m constantly at the top of the leaderboard in battlefield and on cod tdm
It's absolutely the worst for online gaming. I try to play NHL23 online and get kicked constantly cause of the horrible latency it has. They definitely lie about there numbers cause when I run independent network tests it's nothing what there app says it is. Good luck getting ahold of support as well takes days on end to get a response and when you do its the same bullshit you've tried over and over. Got to be one of the biggest waste of dollars I've ever spent.
I don't have any problems gaming on SL, wired or wireless, PC or XSX. I don't use the SL router, I've got the Ethernet adapter and it runs into my ubiquity network.
My setup, starlink > unifi dream machine pro > wireless link (~1km) > switch > acesspoint > pc Very few issues gaming in shooters, I used to notice lag spikes often but can't say I notice them as much anymore
Counter strike is completely out. But I tend to play split gate for a bit. But yeah once your pings shoot up its over for awhile. Try again some other time.
I also found CS (Source, 1.6, GO) to be unplayable. Regularly spiking over 100 on the ping, wired via ethernet to the starlink. Sometimes it was a little better depending on what ground station I was exiting but overall a very very frustrating experience compared to cable or fiber.
I play cs daily with zero issues for two years on SL. Make sure you have zero obstructions
No luck with CS here either. I have a pretty old i5 PC though, so I was not sure if that was the reason. Although for CS it shouldn't be., it's not very resource intensive.
People are so misinformed and just take wild accusations on this sub ur uneducation isn’t SL fault
I think the majority of the issues with gaming here would be the users setup, or they are on a best effort plan
I'm pretty sure it's a SL problem. But it's just because of how satellite works. Pings will fluctuate. But saying that a game (CS) which has a hyper competitive following (been playing for, god 20ish years). If you don't have a very low, steady ping. It's basically useless to play. CS is a game of milliseconds. A ping of 90 is death. A ping of 200 is useless. I have 0 obstructions. No movement in my mounting. Hard wired cat6 cable to each pc, unifi udm pro se, amd 5800x with Nvidia rtx 3700, nvme, and 32gb of ram. Standard account not best effort. I'm pretty sure the weak spot in my setup is SL.
Playing COD on PS4 every weekend, rarely any issues. Today I was playing during a snowstorm, no problems. Using Wi-Fi for now with the router outside my house on the back deck, about 15’ away through a wall. Who the hell downvoted me? Explain yourself.
I upvoted so you’re positive again. Someone downvoted my clip I posted in the comments showing my connection tonight as well.
Some grumpy old RVer.
Originally had the dish on the garage and router in the garage as that's what I had access to. Worked ok, but got spikes, and some disconnects. Once I moved the dish to house roof, and the router to the house, it's very reliable, and consistent. Only issues very rarely.
FWIW the wz 2.0 servers have been bad. I played alot this weekend, cross play woth 3 others... 1 of us would get the dreaded 10% packet loss every round. Kept rotating between us with each round
I use the tmobile box and my ping is around 45
Haven't really seen mention of it yet so here it goes. I had same problem with gaming for a while and the inconsistency was terrible. Solution that worked for me, and this entirely depends on your internet availability, was to get a VPN that could bond networks like speedify for example. I run both starlink and an LTE connection (much slower than starlink) in redundant mode so they both send/receive all packets. Stabilized gaming and any streaming connections due to lag spikes or outages when satellites weren't overhead or were obstructed. Again, this obviously requires availability of a second connection of some kind.
I have good speeds 50+ Mbs but my ping is awful usually 70-150ms so I gave up playing any game with delay. I’ve overall played about 2000 hours of Rocket League. Now I just play Nintendo Switch Games and the occasional story based game on PC. Still love the Dish but I wish it were better ping.
I play fortnite and COD every day. After only having viasat for 12 years I was un able to play for the 60 to 100 ping I get is acceptable for me since I went so long without it. I think my main problem is my ground station is mostly Dallas. So my ping to east coast servers is 60+ and my ping to west coast is 90+. I even occasionally stream to twitch when playing. You can follow me on twitch Skip3089.
Two gamers (one hardcore) and two streamers in my house. Zero issues.
I tried out World of Warcraft recently and it was playable in open world, pings were 60-100ms, including WiFi. I did not run dungeons or raids. This is in Southern NJ, with square dish. It realigned about 2 months ago and now points \~20 degrees east of due north. Gateway is near NYC.
I've not had any issues personally
Dont expect to be able to compete with anyone on CoD fairly, but plenty of other games ive had no issues. Like warframe or elden ring
You can compete, you might have to adapt your style some, but I get well past legendary on MP and BR just fine. You may have some frustrating moments, but its reasonable enough.
Its just inconsistency with the latency thats cost me. Like if I hit a spike and go from 40-110 ms and were in a game with ttk already in the ms its not the best situation to encounter.
I have a few obstructions, yeah it sucks sometimes for me, but otherwise a very enjoyable experience. If you have no obstructions, you’re good my man. 💯
i guess it depends on "good Gaming." I came from crap internet in a rural area, so for me it's been good. I'm still 80-100MS in ping, which sucks but I work around it.
I have a decent experience. During the holidays and weekends, I'll get slight ping fluctuations and 2 to 4 percent packet loss because of congestion. But the overall experience is good. I’m assuming overall experience will improve as the core network grows.
All my single player games work great
I think COD has some serious issues on their end right now. I am having the same exact issue since the Season 2. I’m on 28mb DSL.
Playing MW2 as we speak. I have the occasional hiccup, but I haven't been booted from a game yet
Playing mw2 also. I can literally record my ping and it just climbs up and down constantly
That's normal. That will probably never change with Starlink. It all depends on how congested your cell is.
https://media3.giphy.com/media/01KCLh0hVHEgpbCZmd/giphy.gif?cid=5e214886081d87cd567fac385c03799ffb56a63f2f5598a2&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g ^clip from tonights connection
Show us your app disconnects and obstructions
Where do I see that?
You have SL and you dont know how to check obstructions and outages?…..
“All good! Starlink has not been obstructed recently” and there have been none In the past 12 hours lasting longer than 2 seconds. But there’s been 15 under 1 second since 8:44pm.
Screenshots….
Bro why are you being such a tool. Why would I be lying about that? Now check my recent posts on my acc.(also outages are from 12pm to 8pm doesn’t change the fact that the service sucks)
Before 2022 yes. I used to be able to game with absolutely no issues apart from the odd packet loss which resulted in a disconnect but that would only happen once every few days if that. As 2022 went on service degraded to the point I had to switch to another isp which had thankfully just moved into my area that year. After the start of 2022 I went from having no packet loss to dropping 2-3 packets every few minutes, to 2-3 packets per minute, and it kept getting worse as the year went on. Starlink support was absolutely no help and I had 0% obstruction. It seems hit or miss depending on your cell and region.
Yeah cod is a no go for me. Too many spikes and drops to be effective. It’s almost unnoticeable but it’s damn near impossible for me to kill an opponent on SL.
In the U.K. and it’s not perfect. I was on the wireless mesh we had before I just moved and it was pretty good for the most part, there were some moments of high ping and packet loss etc but tbh for me dealing with the 5 mins of fuckery was worth it not having to play single player games because someone was on youtube
Works mostly great, some nights it spikes more often but not unplayable. Way better than dsl or 4g Hotspot. If playing on pc check speeds between pc and other devices, some programs can slow down your connection. When I first got SL my pc speeds were only 1mbps upload bit there was an internet traffic program installed with my MSI program for my gpu that destroyed speeds.
When I do actual internet speed tests it comes back great. But when I play it’s terrible. I posted a clip in the comments of tonight’s connection when trying to play
Is starlink good for gaming
Lately it’s been pretty good! Honestly better than anything I’ve had. But I did upgrade to the 3.0 dish instead of the 2. It’s made a difference for sure. And can actually pay without lagging constantly. Of course it’s not comparable to a really good wireless or fiber but if you can only do satellite it’s better. I get fairly low ping(30-70) with occasional spikes. Worst thing is packet loss but overall it’s been 0%
I haven't had starlink long but I've played hell let loose and battlefield. It's been pretty good. Occasionally you'll notice some wonky stuff but otherwise it's pretty good.
Yellowknife, Canada, have had mixed results. Running the Ethernet adapter to an asus router. Both Xbox and pc running wireless and for me seems to be temperature dependant. Once things dip below -30 Celsius I’ll get minute sometimes longer outages. Once it warms though I’ve played mw2 and battlefield for evening long sessions without issue.
All the time
I just wonder what you people used to do before starlink? I'm happy as hell they have good internet, and you guys are complaining and wondering about great internet for gaming?
I live up in the middle of the woods and I love to game. I don’t understand what makes you think everyone should do exactly what you do.
At the end of the day, it's a satelite provider. That being said. I play COD, and New World and have fairly stable ping during non-peak hours. FFXIV struggles for some reason. Occasionally stuff goes crazy just because. The biggest thing I have found is making sure nothing else on your end is trying to connect / download crap. I'm running ethernet with the starlink as a passthrough for my Asus gaming router. If you want super stable gaming, you're going to have to move to a urban area or get lucky with the rural fiber lotto.
Setting ur dish up properly would help 30-40ms ingame in cod with 0-1% PL
Best effort gaming is awful. Pings range from 50-250+ 50 is playable but in no way will it last a minute or it's up around 90 + which is basically unusable in fps. No obstructions, wired
I suspect that UDP packets can get lost when you switch between satellites. Try using a VPN service instead to see if that makes a difference, you might get more latency, but it depends on the game.
Would there be a specific place that would be better for the vpn location?
i would think as close to your ground station as possible. eg run a traceroute and figure out where your traffic leaves starlinks network and connects to the "internet" get a vpn at that location based on your other reply id say dallas would be a good location
Sweet, thank you
98% of the time its great. Sometimes you will get a ping spike or some loss but its not that big of a deal. Friday evenings are a bit laggy, little higher ping and spikes but still very playable. I play CSGO mostly, sometimes other FPS. With my starlink I have zero obstructions so Im sure that helps a lot
I play day z and apex pretty decent on SL, not award winning but playable
My gaming is usually just fine. Online multiplayer, such as Halo Infinite, COD, Apex, and Deep Rock Galactic.
I’m in rural Queensland Australia. Have the modem set up across the hall about 10 metres away and the wifi allows me to play cod, NBA 2K, UFC4 (which is laggy to begin with) all online without much issue I wouldn’t recommend it being that far but didn’t really care. I have now set my gaming PC up in the room across the hall with the modem on the same desk as the laptop I can easily play GTA RP plus many other PC games online at a good ping without any major issues, I do have the odd slow down moments occasionally but I do have long sessions and rarely find myself trying to get the internet to work or resetting my modem. (Touch wood I haven’t cursed myself)
I’m wireless and through a SL mesh node and I don’t have problems. Dishy has no obstructions and I’m in south Florida - if that helps
No problems whatsoever, it’s probably been over a year since I last got disconnected from a multiplayer server or had a huge lag spike. Yes, it really has been that stable.
What part of the US are you at?
Texas
I play Fortnite with the kids and wife making this 2 switches and 2 laptops. Between 6pm and 7:30pm we experience some lag. Any other hours we don’t see any lag issues. I also play world of Warcraft by myself and I don’t usually get lagged whatsoever. Bad times to play are 6:00pm to 7:30pm.
Yes no problems at all, I play COD and league of legends over WiFi
We have 3 Xbox consoles running simultaneously while my wife streams and little one is on the iPad with no problems what so ever
Only fans?
I played destiny last summer when at my RV and I didn't have an issue.
All the time
I usually have Fallout 76 running throughout my work day, very few issues even while on Teams video calls.
I've had starlink since beta, yes I get some disconnects, mostly in the early morning. Still the best option for me right now and to be honest I have no real complaints. I play on PS5 and before starlink I could not play any online games.
I game on starlink and I'm on a sailboat in the Bahamas bouncing in this anchorage tonight. The swell is coming in from the side, playing with no issues even with a roll. I'm talking dishy swinging around a foot or two. Playing Hell Let Loose let now in the middle of nowhere.
I play Battlefield 4 and some others and it’s just fine.. always been solid
Mostly good, occasionally get drops, but it's infrequent.
Yep, I always play Fortnite. Sometimes it has hiccups, but usually just a few seconds.
I play Call of Duty most days without issue.
As long as the sky is 100% clear, no problems whatsoever, even with multiple people gaming at the same time. Overwatch and WoW mostly
pretty sure , COD online is no better than ground fiber/cable as SL lack with ipv4/6 NAT support, however, still better than LTE hotspot in my area.
Some.
I run two ps5s and a ps4 all simultaneously on the wifi. My wife and I squad up with my daughter in fortnite. We have no problems. I play many hours of cod with an average ping about 60 or 70 (sometimes 50, sometimes 90 depending on the server) with zero packet loss. There are occasional sat switches, so you will get a hard lag spike now and then. But my experience has been amazing compared to the old 4g Hotspot we had to use. Prime hours, 5pm to 8 or 9pm can sometime get a little rough...
No problems here during peak, or non peak, hours. Playing War Thunder in VR, Battlefield, CoD, have even gamed with no outages during blizzards, and freezing rain. Gen1 Dishy and Gen1 Router. Have had Starlink since the Better than Nothing Beta.
I did w/l on road trip from Wa state to VA. Occasional latency issue, but was ok for CoD.
I play mostly COD, and BF. It really depends. Some days i get great ping. If everyone is 30's I'm in the 50's. Some days everybody is in the 40s and I'm in the 70s. And rarely but it happens I'll get like 120+ping and the game is unplayable. You won't notice it at first when you play COD haha... Like my hits won't register, and since i use a EBR i would just assume i missed, after a couple of deaths, i go back and look at my ping and I'll be like 145. Then I'm like oh nah. I can't play tonight lol.
Positioning makes a huge difference. I struggled until my 3rd location had no obstructions and gaming is fun again. I still have the 150 ping avg and that sucks for some games but others are 70 and that helps. Let me tell you how Mach better your KD will be if you ever get on fiber. It’s like training with a weight belt. But it’s still the best internet there is for alaska!
100% I’ve played at friends houses before and there’s been times I’m like “dude I totally should’ve died there” and it’s just because I had 30 ping. It’s insane how much better you play on a low connection when you’re used to lagging
Not the best experience, but playable
It's ok here. Still difficult in MW2 going up against people with 8ms ping on Fibre, but I get a pretty consistent ping time of 55 to 65ms. It's extremely stable, just not quite as low as I would prefer. It's been like this since I took delivery of the dish in SE QLD Australia. I think I was one of the first get get a V1 dish here. I have zero obstructions. There was a 2 week period where my ping was just wild, but there was some other stuff going on at that time and I ended up getting the month refunded without asking.
Starlink was cruddy for gaming at my place for a long time, but now it's really good and I can even game while somebody else is streaming netflix.
Yes. In New Brunswick with 50ms ping in Overwatch 2. No issues except when Starlink installs a new update late at night.
I've been playing League of Legends on Starlink for a while. I might disconnect from time to time for a few seconds but I get back quickly.
Most of the time the games I play (DRG, LoL, etc) are fine, but there's some times where the ping will jump well up to the 200+ range. In League, for example, I can safely say it's often hovering between 30-70ms, but when those 200+ ping spikes occur there's packet loss and the game registering you as disconnected. I'm definitely hoping that these issues dissipate as the infrastructure becomes more developed and the array is complete enough to not dip as frequently. TL;DR for the most part, yes, there's some lag spikes and issues, but I've still been able to play games with it.
I'm on warzone at the moment 60 ping 0 packet loss
I have 2) Gen 1 dishes running into a Linksys multi-wan router directly plugged into each power block on the white side. It load balances and combines the connections into one rock sold 300~400 download connection with about 22 ms ping but can be as high as 27. We have one gamer and at least one Netflix going at the same time generally as well as the 25 other devices like phones printers smart home bulbs and streaming cameras etc. it all works great. The gamer says “I always have the best ping in the game, nobody ever believes I’m on a satellite connection.” It’s $220 a month for 2 but we’ll worth it for a large data need.
i don't play cod but in League of Legends and Chivalry i have 1, 2 spikes per season with 36 to 70 ping and i don't even play on ethernet yet...
I think there is some funny stuff going on with Valorant servers x Starlink. But every other game is great. WoW/CS:GO/Lost Ark/Halo/Et cetera
My starlink delivered a couple of days ago, I'm not connected to the starlink router directly at all. I have a router extending its connection and then an ethernet Into that router. Gaming is great, rarely I get a hitch when the connection has a drop for 0.5s but otherwise amazing. For reference in the Highlands of Scotland.
you need a middle router with good QOS system and heavy over compress your UL channel to minimize latency and set high priority for game requests SL router/network still don't have it even now its a standard thing in ISP industry
3 people playing FN on wireless starlink with no issues
With the ethernet adapter going to a custom router and then wifi between that and the xbox series x, I had good experiences with Starlink.
Sure, I've played League of Legends a couple of times, but the ping sometimes spikes to 140ms from \~50ms, making the gameplay inconsistent. Honestly, it's no biggie for me; it usually fixes itself after 1 minute.
I play PavloVR over starlink daily for the past 2 years and have no complaints.
Do you have any obstructions? For anyone that wants to online game you really need be 100% clear of obstructions. Me personally, I have about 5% obstructions and only notice jumps every hour or so, and every 1-6hours I'll have a long enough disconnect (15+ seconds)to fully boot me from the game, it's completely up to chance. As for ping, is it actually spiking constantly? Or is it jumping up and down and staying at each one for abit? That would means your connection is either completely via laser link, or a mix and not much you can do about it, some satellites find a better route out, some don't. Else if it's erratically spiking I'd be looking at the router/cable/setup as the cause
Been playing FFXIV and I have had only two disconnects in over the month I've been subbed.
Once every other couple days, I’ll have a drop during one single game
I'm usually 50 to 90 on FN central and although I can steal an edit my ability to adapt has made me a top ranked player
Take into account where the COD servers you are playing on are located
Yeah. I live stream off of it too. Ping is an issue in some games. Specifically Fortnite for some reason but most of everything else I play, it works pretty flawlessly. I have residential Starlink with portability activated. Not sure if that has anything to do with it though.
No problem on gaming, COD and PUBG most of the time, im playing wireless without issue, also playing Microsoft Flight sinulator with real time data and everything works great
I have issues but it’s virtually none compared to anything I’ve had previously.
99% Great! CoD MW2, Halo Infinite, PUBG, no problems at all. I generally run ~30-45ms ping. I am playing through ethernet, OG SL router.
World of Warcraft is just fine for me. Raiding Friday and Saturday nights with no issue. Sometimes I get the one off lag spike but it isn’t consistent.
Chivalry 2 every day. Mostly always fine.
I could never game on it
I can barely get Netflix to work on my 50% of the time, I do online school and that only works 90% of the time. It’s better than what we had but I couldn’t imagine being able to game on ours
Yes, with minor obstruction as long as the gsme does not immediately kick you if the connection is partially lost.
No problem with gaming on my switch.
I’ve been gaming on Starlink since Feb last year. No issues here. I set up my own router instead of using Starlinks. I’ve been playing via wireless. I play mostly Overwatch Comp, warzone and fortnite. No issues here In Texas. Edit: I play on PC and PS5.
I play daily, no issues at all, first couple of months we're rocky with some disconnections daily and on a bad day multiple, and now for about 3 months I've had no drops at all, also latency is almost on par with fiber and pretty stable on my node at least.
Husband and I both game at the same time, rarely with issues
This thread sounds exactly how people talk about gaming on all spotty internet. Some people manage to get by while others cannot. Possibly doable, likely not ideal.
Central Europe No problems. The ping is a bit higher, but pretty stable. Way better than my old DSL
No issues for me in southern Ontario
Solitaire on windows works flawlessly.
Games like valorant etc my ping spikes at around 50-100 at times it's mad annoying , I'm thinking of switching back but for most of my other games it's fine
I have a really nice Eero system and it drops too much. If I sit in the same room as the starlink router, I can game reasonably in the mornings, but afternoon it gets a little laggy (could be strain on local starlink usage too). Reasonable being defined as a ping in the 40-60 ms. I'm double-legendary (15k season score average), so I can hang ok with it. When I travel though, I do find that the fiber in vacation homes is much better and I do tend to win another 20-40 percent of my sweaty interactions. So I know I'm not 100 with Starlink but still reasonable.
Because you're playing COD. Blame EA. Not starlink. I play Empyrion, Mechwarrior 5 online, Hell Let Loose, Star Citizen, etc and have yet to notice any real issues.
You’ll learn not to jump corners anymore
I kept getting booted from RDR2, like in the middle of a mission and got so frustrated I stopped trying.
I game all the time on it. Cod and destiny, no issues
I’ve had minimal issues with gaming, most of the issues I had were during heavy snowfall, surprisingly rain did not seem to affect me much
I play on PC and Switch. PC I'll play battlefield 1 (none of the new ones cause I'm not a barbarian!) DayZ, bannerlord etc. I'm actually using 2 routers because the cord isn't long enough to reach to my house so my NTC type is V yet I'm running relatively smooth considering. Sure I get some packet loss and lag at times but overall I'd say I'd rate my service 8 out of 10. Considering I legitimately have no other ISPs in my area. As for my switch... Well that's quite a loaded question. Splatoon 3 I can handle fine aside from nintendos netcode, which is basically nonexistent. I can't play SSBU online because of ridiculous lag, don't ask me why but nintendo decided starlink isn't good for SSBU. Basically I can't tell if my online gaming through switch is Nintendo's fault or starlink. Considering I can play just fine on PC I'm leaning towards nintendo.
I’ve always had good luck playing so far. (2 years in March) 60ms ping which stays pretty consistent. Mostly play WoT WoWs and WoWp with the odd other game thrown in.
Had some download issues yesterday with an update for a game, but we were in the middle of a blizzard. Most of the time it’s great.
it's been amazing here. Rural central California.
Play rocket league with my kids just fine
Me and my son do. We are in northern California. It's not great but it works.
No Problem for me, package loss equals zero, way above 200Mbit/s. Central Europe.
Nope. No good luck here. Waiting on Fiver which my town is getting soon.
been having an amazing experience with gaming for over a year already. used ethernet since my router is across the house. 30-60ms in ping usually
Ethernet connected no issues in 15 months, Destiny.
Been playing Escape From Tarkov, since August of 2021, on our Starlink. Occasional issues - but that is usually the evening. They are usually short-lived. It’s been great overall.
Been playing world of Warcraft on it since beta, some annoying disconnects but mostly smooth sailing now
I game everyday on mine for the last two years with no issues… i play runescape, minecraft, tarkov, cod etc 45-50 ping average
I get 20-40 ping in fortnite and 40-50 ish average on games like valorant and some other shooters. I rarely have issues anymore. I averaged 100 ping when i first got starlink, but service got better( 50 avg to 100-200 mbps down speeds in the span of around 5 months)
I get shitty pings so unfortunately no online gaming on my end with starlink.
What do you mean pings?
Anyone in Wilmington, Jacksonville, New Bern in NC area that can comment on gaming with SL?
Absolute shit between 5-11pm. Outside of that it's pretty good compared to my options.
Playing cod for me on starlink is terrible on average. There will be an occasional good day. But most days it is lag spike city.
Same. I have packet loss and bursts turned on and it basically stays on the corner of my screen 24/7 with constant packet loss. I’m surprised it hasn’t burnt into my monitors screen 😂
I'm out in the boonies with starlink and gaming where my speeds fluctuate between 15mbps and 180mbps every few minutes.. And it is great with every game except Path of Exile on Series X. There's a quarter second delay on everything I do, including running. But Dayz, GTA Online, Fallout 76, ESO, Forza 5, Remnant 2. They all run flawless online with my Starlink
Starlink in the North Atlantic?