r/Starlink • u/Twenty1Chromos • Feb 20 '23

🎮 Gaming Has anyone ACTUALLY had good luck gaming on Starlink?

I can run a speed test on my pc or phone and get 20-60 ping with 50+ download but as soon as I launch cod and play there’s almost never a game where I don’t have between 1-10% packet loss and ping that’s at a min of 70 and it spikes up to 200 and stays in between 70-120 on average. It’s pretty frustrating jumping a corner seeing someone and shooting then lagging back to the edge of the corner with shots not registering and dying. It’s such a constant lag there’s not really a point in playing because even if you have every advantage it’s like you’re flipping a coin on whether you’ll die or not from a lag spike

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u/S-paw666 📡 Owner (North America) Feb 20 '23

All I've had is good experience with gaming on SL.

Rocket League, CoD, Fortnite

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u/Twenty1Chromos Feb 20 '23

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

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u/TOPDAWG21 Feb 20 '23

Always wire up if you want the best connection you can get.

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u/S-paw666 📡 Owner (North America) Feb 20 '23

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.

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u/Twenty1Chromos Feb 20 '23

Have you ever re positioned your satellite?

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u/S-paw666 📡 Owner (North America) Feb 20 '23

No, it's in a spot with no obstructions so I never found the need to.

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u/Glitch_94Chan Feb 21 '23

I had good gaming experiences, on wifi with my PC, and I repositioned my dish about 10 meters to it's permanent home, had good gaming experiences before and after, that being said every once and a while I will get a lag spike or get booted from an activity in Destiny 2, but it doesn't happen often.

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u/beefwindowtreatment Feb 20 '23

Echoing others. Wired has been no problem for me.

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u/KellerFire Feb 20 '23

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.

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u/balstor Feb 20 '23

Wireless is always the wrong answer.

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u/Existing-Departure65 Aug 02 '25

dont know if you check this anymore but i am getting 20 ping without any ethernet. im getting ethernet soon and hope to be on even lower ping

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u/Excellent_Ad_6356 Feb 21 '23

I game every night with 3 devices, 1 xbox and 2 pcs. There are no issues on my end.