It might be a long shot has anyone beta testing starlink ran WoW with it yet?
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Late reply to this, as I just saw it. I don’t have the beta as I live in the southern US, but I did watch a video of a beta tester in WA, that played Call of Duty. His MS never got over 40.
I was literally drooling. I have Viasat which has 600MS minimum; and my cellphone keeps me around 85ms.
I for one am excited about the prospects of Starlink. I hope it is sucessful.
Also a Viasat user and I can’t wait for Starlink to get going in my area. The fact that there’s only like two internet options for rural users in the US, and they’re owned by the same company, is really pathetic.
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Oh I can’t wait to see HughesNet go down in flames.
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Quote for Elon Musk:
“It will be a pretty good experience because it’ll be very low latency,” Musk said in a Q&A session at the Satellite 2020 [conference] “We’re targeting latency below 20 milliseconds, so somebody could play a fast-response video game at a competitive level, like that’s the threshold for the latency.”
If that happens, I just can’t explain how happy that would make me. I am not sure folks in cities that have 3 sometimes 4 or 5 options for broadband can understand how huge this would be for folks that live in rural areas of many many state in the US.
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I have tested for about a month with pretty good results. I get around 90ms latency on thunderlord which is comparable to my dsl. Much better download speeds. I do get drops occasionally which may be related to beta or an obstruction. Working with Starlink techs now.
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Starlink works with wow HOWEVER… there is a big HOWEVER… If there are any obstructions you will get frequent lag about once every 5 min where everybody runs in place for roughly 20 seconds. I have been dc once so far in a 20 min window. It appears that as one cluster starts to leave and another cluster comes into range this is when I have the problems. So is it playable yes. Is it playable in raids probably not entirely unless you have no obstructions.
When they say you have to have a clear view of the sky with no obstructions think of the satellite as a big eyeball. If it can see a tree anywhere in its view that is an obstruction. Unlike direct tv and dish network where you hone in on one specific satellite Starlink uses the entire field of view. So there are blind spots if there are any trees. I have it in about a 1 acre cleared area and I still get obstructions once every 5 minutes. Speaking of which second disconnect in 20 minutes just happened. I am going to try to get rid of the little obstructions I have but its very unlikely I can completely get rid of them. So about once every five minutes I have a lag spike or a DC.
We have it. Better half and I have played on it but we have 1 obstruction. In about 1-2 hours of play I get DC’ed 3 to 4 times. Enough to be annoying as it usually happens during big pulls.
Ping times are good. Do NOT try to play competitive though. Not yet anyway 
Doomhammer and roughly 55ms ping avg.
with 55ms I would be trying competitive. My current ms average is 650-850ms with Viastat. The Startlink beta is close to where I am but not in my area 
My experience is the same as Valfoxie’s. Starlink’s ping meter shows I’m at 95% success rate, and says"No obstructions" in the obstruction report. However, there is a very brief lag spike about every 5 minutes when one satellite drops out of view and the next comes into sight.
This makes the game almost unplayable. In game, the ping meter generally shows 500-2000ms with noticeable lag spikes (slow looting, casting delays, vendors slow to open, etc.)
I concur, you probably need absolutely no objects visible in the obstruction camera view if you intend to raid, or even group up.
P.S. ping times to things like Google DNS and Cloudflare generally run 35-45ms, and ping times to the WoW data center IP addresses generally run in the 90ms range.
Sounds like I better stick with my trusty DSL for now. Upload speed is bad but download is 35 Mbps, ping is 50 to 90 depending on server. But it is consistent at least.
With Starlink’s 30-60ms average latency, WoW should be quite playable. When I lived in Japan, I played on EST servers with latency in the upper 100s/lower 200s and encountered little trouble.
This should dissipate as more batches of satellites are sent up, since the spikes are caused by small gaps in coverage. There are a few areas with continuous coverage now, and that will eventually expand to the entirety of populated North America.
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Is this associated with Elon? I think I vaguely have an idea what you guys are talking about, lol.
- you have to remember that starlink is in beta.
- you have to keep in mind that there is only a handful of users atm.
- realize that once it’s out of beta and openly available to the masses it’s going to get slammed and as a result ping/speed/latency are going to skyrocket.
- you should be worried that the ping is 40-100ms when there’s only a handful of users on.
it’s no different than anything else online (i.e. a server)… it may seem fast and great when only a handful of users are online at a time, but once there’s literally thousands upon thousands on at once, performance is going to go into the toilet asap.
This is too bad. I was hoping Starlink might be my savior.
I’ve got TDS in rural NW GA, and speedtest usually shows me at 64ms ping, 14-15mbps download and 1.21mbps upload. I can stream 4k with that fine, and WoW plays pretty well with FPS usually around 60 or better and 200ms or less (usually around 100-150). It’s actually not bad and a lot better than I expected in such a rural area. But I live alone and don’t need to share, and I don’t usually stream + play at the same time.
Starlink is the low earth orbit satellite internet service run by SpaceX. It distinguishes itself from prior satellite internet by providing far more bandwidth with far lower latency by flying the the satellites thousands of miles lower.
Currently the target audience is customers in rural and semi-rural areas where there’s usually only one or two comically bad options for internet service, but with time it’ll expand to include cases like boats and Antarctic science outposts where there are no nearby ground stations.
After the constellation is complete and financially stable they’ll spin it off into its own public traded company.
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Yep. I expect it will improve. But for those keeping score at home, this is what’s happening right now for me during the “Better than nothing” beta. 
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Gimme a cabin in the middle of nowhere, a few solar panels, and a starlink and I would be a happy person.
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