does anyone play using star link if so how good is it??
I have a farm in the middle of nowhere. Starlink is the sole reason I am able to play this game since there are no other internet providers out here.
I am a dirty casual so the only raiding I do is LFR but that runs perfectly. The treasure goblin gave me some crazy fps issues but other than that it is great. If there is a really big storm I do get lag and can lose service for a few minutes.
Starlink has been such a huge win for my family. I love being able to play WoW again.
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The proliferation of wireless internet services that don’t have 500ms pings has been truly amazing. It wasn’t too long ago that people were either locked into one option or no option. Now, many more people have at least one option, it not more, whether it’s landline-based, cellular-based or satellite-based. Progress is great 
FPS issues are hardware-related, not ISP related. With that said, any large gathering tends to just have terrible latency issues for everyone.
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I had Starlink until recently. At first, about a year and a half ago, it was pretty amazing. Almost perfect. 200-300Mbps speeds and 20-40ms latency any time of day. It was very playable for WoW other than a rare occasional brief latency spike.
That was a year and a half ago…
Since then, they wildly over-subscribed the service. They kept adding more customers, as well as turning a blind-eye to people using methods to bypass the wait-list, such as subscribing to RV service (Which is not tied to any specific cell) and then using it as the main internet at their home (in a full cell) instead.
The result is that speeds plummeted, and latency increased, especially during peak hours. We’re talking DSL speeds or worse, and several hundred MS latency or more during those peak hours. Speeds and latency were still great in the middle of the night, like 3am, but my raid times were during peak hours and that was a problem.
There was always the promise that they would be launching more, newer, bigger satellites, but those goal posts kept being moved further and further out. I got tired of waiting.
Maybe it will become good again some day, who knows. I know that the biggest satellites need to be launched using the “starship” rocket, and that keeps being delayed, which is probably part of the problem.
It’s still a better option compared to traditional satellite ISPs (geosynchronous satellites) such as Hugues which give you 1000ms latency, but that’s about all that can be said at this point until/if their network capacity eventually catches up with their subscribers again. Might be a while…
…that’s it?
Never understood all the “hype” behind Starlink myself, I’m guessing it’s mainly popular because Elon Musk has his name attached to it
Just with my standard Xfinity connection the speeds seem to hover between 250-300 Mbps for wifi and 700-1000 Mbps for physical cable connection, and latency varies from 20-40ms for wireless and like 10-20ms latency for a physical cable connection
This is pretty much accurate to everything Elon Musk is involved in.
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This is the point you are missing. The benefit to Starlink is the availability in areas that Comast and other cable/fiber options don’t exist. Some area’s only have extremely slow DSL or nothing. 5G from Verizon, T-Mobile and others is becoming a good alternative too.
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Yeah… but you have to understand that prior to Starlink, there was no such thing as a Satellite ISP that offered anything comparable to a wired broadband internet service. Hughes gives you like 25Mbps, 1000ms latency, and a horrendously low data cap. I transferred 10TB over Starlink during my first week just to make sure that “unlimited data” was really unlimited. To put that in perspective, most Cable ISPs have a 1TB/month data cap…
http://gotnorice.com/Starlink10TB.jpg
http://gotnorice.com/Starlinkpings.jpg
It was pretty amazing at first before they over-subscribed it.
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You didn’t read the other comments, did you?
For anyone outside of metropolitan and suburban areas, satellite-based internet is the only practical option. And starlink blows all the others like Hughesnet out of the water with its performance thanks to its LEO satellites. The only comparable option is a mobile hotspot which will get throttled after 25 gigs of usage (nomatter which provider you choose, i’ve checked). I currently go through four phone hotspots and two dedicated hotspot devices worth of high speed a month. Starlink is a godsend.