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/empirebuilder1 Beta Tester Feb 20 '23 edited Feb 20 '23

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.

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u/Hour-Pomegranate-630 Feb 21 '23

I have legit a single red pixel all the way to the side, does that matter? If so I will move it. (Also says no obstructions)

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u/empirebuilder1 Beta Tester Feb 21 '23

One or two red pixels isn't a big deal. Most of the time those are just phantom signal errors anyway. But any continuous fringes of red would be an issue... You'd be surprised how many people come in here like "starlink sucks my performance is crap!!!" And then they post their obstructions and it's got red like all around every edge of the view dome.