I have been back and forth with this. I’ve seen afew different topics with this over the years but nothing from in the last year or so about if this is any good internet for those of us out in the country.
Can anyone who has it help me out?
My neighbor had tmobile wireless but he says the starlink is better but he doesn’t play online games so I’m needing alittle help.
I wouldn’t touch anything with Elmo’s stink on it.
No clue (I have cable Internet). But I imagine Starlink would work fine for WoW unless the weather is bad.
Not sure. Reddit may have some insightful threads about the topic. 
i’ve tried satelite internet before a long while ago and it was horrible for wow. not sure about now.
If it was Husnet or however you spell that, they are just all around bad.
no it was some other internet service.
Satellite of any kind is horrible for online gaming because of the additional latency. It works, but you will have MUCH higher latency than you’re used to.
From what I understand of satellite communication, older systems were in geosynchronous orbit (i.e., very far away from the planet’s surface, so the signal had to travel far which contributes to latency), whereas Starlink has the satellites in a very low orbit so the signal doesn’t travel nearly as far.
So newer systems should be much faster.
yeah one i had for awhile gave me 1.2k-8k latency was basically unplayable. lowest i ever got with it was 600ms.
Isn’t starlink satellites at a lower orbit?
Thus reducing the latency?
WoW doesn’t require that great of internet.
I still have DSL which uses a phone line. I get max 50Mbps but realistically it’s a lot less lol
Ive installed dozens of starlinks.
They work like regular internet. Its not like fibre or anything but for rural connections its as good as you can get. Seen lots of people playing console games with no complaints. Take that for what it’s worth.
Why’s that?
I have T-Mobile 5g and the speed ranges from 50 to 300 Mbps, which is absolutely fine for my needs. Solid connection. $50 per month. Didn’t need to pay for the modem.
are you serious with this comment?
cause L O L
His fanboys are not serous people.
To add some numbers:
Geosynchronous orbit: a little over 35,000 km (basically equal to sending your signal all the way around the world, adding about 250ms to ping times)
Starlink orbit: ~500 km. (May have to bounce between satellites before coming down, I’m a little fuzzy about the details of how it routes data, google says 20-40ms to ping times with occasional spikes to 100ms)
But my ISP just panicked and upgraded all the land lands in my area to fibre optic cable last year so now I have better Internet to my house than my entire university had when I was in school.
Starlink was never meant for speed. It was meant for connectivity.
And a billionaire’s wet dream for control.