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 areas where it is not very good. Surely you have wondered what it would be 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 way of connecting to the Internet through satellites. This technology has been developed by Elon Musk and his company SpaceX. Accessing this type of low-latency satellite internet has a fairly high cost, which we will discuss later.
Playing online with Starlink is possible and with low latency
The companions of the Brazilian medium Adrenaline have done with a starlink internet connection system. In a video they explain how to connect to this network and they also test it, both in speed tests and in games. The truth is that the speeds in the synthetic tests, as well as the gaming latencyit’s 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 Spain 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 moment. For most of the time it is shown to a 30-40ms latency, which is not bad at all. At some very specific moments, the latency up to 80msbeing quite good latencies considering the connection time that it is.
We cannot say that it is comparable to a fiber connection, such as the conventional one for home, but the performance is very good. Testing is missing in more games, that’s true, since you depend a lot on the proximity of servers in games. But despite everything, what we have seen in this video is good data.
Starlink deadly price
The great problem of this type of internet connection developed by SpaceX, is the cost of this system. The entire team has a price of 639 euros, to which we must add the price of shipping and handling costs, which are another 71 euros. Quite a high price for this whole system.
In addition to the cost of the device, each month we will have to pay 99 euros for the service and another 9 euros per month more for regulatory fees. Come on, to the initial 710 euros, we must add 108 euros per month to be able to connect each month.
This does not make much sense for Spain, not even in towns of the so-called emptied Spain, 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 entire community or by a group of users, even subsidized by the state, can be an interesting solution to invigorate and give new possibilities to these communities.
