If you are currently subscribed to that, what is it like when relying on satellite connection for both online live service play (as in multiplayer) and casual gaming? I’ve heard that star link internet sucks, is the subscription even worth the money for what it is? How does satellite connection hold up in comparison to oceanic fiber optic cable internet? The thing is, fiber optic cable internet is common and older while the latter is niche and recent.
Please note that Starlink still uses the regular fiber optic cable internet. Your dish connects to a satellite, which connects to a ground station and from there it’s just regular fiber internet. It isn’t like all of the satellites are interconnected and form their own internet. That would have way less bandwidth than required, as each hub would be it’s own bottleneck.
They do have the capability of using lasers to connect from one satellite to up to four others, but that was in beta for a very long time. I think they actually do use it now, which allows for a satellite over a conflicted region to connect to another satellite which can connect to a friendly base station. This allows hardware from Ukraine to maintain an internet connection when flying over Russia, without using Russian base stations (which would be problematic). But I don’t think the regular commercial package offers this, it’s only for military use.
It’s very hard to get good info on Starlink, as a lot of what Musk and such are saying turns out to be actual BS. They like to hype up their shit. Whenever actual technical details come out, it’s usually much more scaled back and simpler than what they said. They do however have actual cutting edge tech on board and a lot of very smart people working on the development of that tech.