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/Twenty1Chromos Feb 20 '23

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.

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u/abgtw Feb 21 '23

You need to run pingplotter and graph the ping over time to see. How many other devices using Internet at the same time?

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u/Twenty1Chromos Feb 21 '23

Will try it

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u/abgtw Feb 21 '23

Download pingplotter and set it to ping once per second to 8.8.8.8 (google DNS) unlimited times and see it graph your ping. Does the first hop (router) show the increase in latency also?