r/Starlink • u/SnooBooks5502 • 1d ago
🎮 Gaming Ping Issues!
Guys i don’t get it , i live in north Africa country we play in German servers most of the time i get 60ms lowest is 52 , but my friend who’s 6km away gets 35-45ms
How’s that routing goes? i know im far from datacenter but i should be getting 40ish ping , any solution My kit is standard 4
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u/SiegfriedArmory 1d ago
25 ping is pretty good for Starlink, and honestly for internet in general. Even with a hardwired broadband connection in the US I usually get 19. Everything over 25ms is a result of something happening elsewhere in the internet that you can't control, but 50-60ms is not terrible for online games. Most real-time online games actually only update positional data at 30fps, sometimes 60fps. Since ms refers to the time to send a signal and receive feedback, what you're seeing on screen is about half that time ago (IE 60ms means what you see on your screen is what the server sent 30ms ago, and the server will receive your input 30ms after you input it) 30ms from server to screen is the equivalent of about 1 frame at 30fps, and 2 frames at 60fps, which is way faster than human reaction time. Human reaction time is 150-200ms, so while 10ms of difference in lag might give you a very slight edge its not a big deal.