Currently, any game worth its salt has an online mode to be able to play with our friends or to be able to compete. The internet connection is not the same all over the world, and there are countries and regions where it is not very good. Surely you wondered what it would look like latency when playing online with Starlinkand we bring you the answer.
For those who do not know what Starlink is, indicate that it is a means of connecting to the Internet through satellites. This technology has been developed by Elon Musk and his company SpaceX. Accessing this kind of low-latency satellite internet comes at a pretty high cost, which we’ll talk about later.
Playing online with Starlink is possible and with low latency
The companions of the Brazilian medium Adrenaline are done with a Starlink Internet Connection System. In a video they explain how to connect to this network and also test it, both in speed tests and in games. The truth is that speeds in synthetic tests, as well as the game latencyShe is very good.
This system uses special antennas that operate at frequencies between 26.5 GHz and 40 GHz. These frequencies are similar to the frequencies used by 5G, which in Europe is 26 GHz for the upper band.
Once everything is installed, they test it in the game Tom’s Clancy Rainbow Six Siege, showing the latency at each instant. Most of the time it is shown to a Latency 30-40ms, which is not bad at all. At specific times, the latency up to 80msbeing quite good latencies considering the connection time it is.
We cannot say that it is comparable to a fiber connection, like the classic one for the home, but the performance is very good. Testing is lacking in more games, it’s true, because you rely a lot on server proximity in games. But still, the data we saw in this video is good.
Starlink Death Prize
The big problem with this type of internet connection developed by SpaceX, is the cost of this system. The whole team has a price of 639 dollars, to which must be added the price of shipping and handling costs, which amount to an additional 71 dollars. A rather high price for this whole system.
In addition to the cost of the device, each month we will have to pay 99 dollars for the service and an additional 9 dollars per month for the regulatory costs. Come on, to the initial 710 dollars, you have to add 108 dollars per month to be able to connect each month.
It doesn’t make much sense for Europe, not even in the cities of so-called emptied Europe, which are small. But for other countries, in more or less isolated communities where there is nothing connected, it can be interesting.
Do areas of Latin America or Africa where there is no internet connection because they are very isolated. This service paid for by the whole community or by a group of users, or even subsidized by the State, can be an interesting solution to energize and give new possibilities to these communities.
