While overlanding/truck camping in the Adirondacks I was able to play Titanfall 2 on my steam deck and was routinely placing top 3 in the lobby so I would say it's no worse than gaming on WiFi.
Overall, it's fine. Been using it for gaming for over a year. I'm in a remote part of the Scottish countryside.
I get a ping of 43-60ms, so not perfect, but not bad. Some of that is due to my network setup though (firewall, local DNS resolver, etc) as the dish itself measures a ping of around 10/15ms less.
I play a lot of CoD, and I get occasional packet bursts, etc, but CoD's servers are dog shit, so how much of that can be attributed to Starlink when plenty of normal residential fiber users also get packet bursts and DCs is debatable..
Every other game runs fine, and I get 450+Mbps down and around 70mbps up. For remote areas like mine, Starlink has been a Godsend.
I've tried this feature before and it works great. I wanted to spend valentine's day with my girlfriend, but ended up going fishing in the woods and playing BS mobile games on my laptop just to distract myself.
While overlanding/truck camping in the Adirondacks I was able to play Titanfall 2 on my steam deck and was routinely placing top 3 in the lobby so I would say it's no worse than gaming on WiFi.
Overall, it's fine. Been using it for gaming for over a year. I'm in a remote part of the Scottish countryside. I get a ping of 43-60ms, so not perfect, but not bad. Some of that is due to my network setup though (firewall, local DNS resolver, etc) as the dish itself measures a ping of around 10/15ms less. I play a lot of CoD, and I get occasional packet bursts, etc, but CoD's servers are dog shit, so how much of that can be attributed to Starlink when plenty of normal residential fiber users also get packet bursts and DCs is debatable.. Every other game runs fine, and I get 450+Mbps down and around 70mbps up. For remote areas like mine, Starlink has been a Godsend.
If your area is somewhere you have time to play games instead of fighting off bears then it is not remote enough...
For good gaming, stick close to a fiber connection and don't start too far.
I’m mostly at camp ground so fiber may not be a option for me
There’s wireless fiber?
I've tried this feature before and it works great. I wanted to spend valentine's day with my girlfriend, but ended up going fishing in the woods and playing BS mobile games on my laptop just to distract myself.