Online gaming multi wan question

[noobbuilder]

I live in an area with slow dsl but its fast enough for online gaming and stable. I ordered starlink ,but i am worried about disconnects during online gaming. 

I am planning on keeping the slow dsl also and was wondering if online games such as eso ,path of exile or diablo 3 would allow the switching of the isp's ip address while gaming if i use a multi wan router or will i still get booted out of session.

 

Thanks

[Jarsky]

1 hour ago, noobbuilder said:

I live in an area with slow dsl but its fast enough for online gaming and stable. I ordered starlink ,but i am worried about disconnects during online gaming. 

I am planning on keeping the slow dsl also and was wondering if online games such as eso ,path of exile or diablo 3 would allow the switching of the isp's ip address while gaming if i use a multi wan router or will i still get booted out of session.

 

Thanks

some games are UDP which doesnt allow for packet queuing in the same way as TCP. 

Keep in mind though even if you have a multi WAN setup, it still has to wait for the TCP packets to be assembled back in the correct order, so if there is issues on one of the WAN links then you'll experience Jitter / Packet Loss as long as its trying to transmit/receive over that link. 

[noobbuilder]

Ok so its probably different from game to game but best to just play on the slow stable internet when online gaming (just a minor hassle). Thanks

[Jarsky]

7 hours ago, noobbuilder said:

Ok so its probably different from game to game but best to just play on the slow stable internet when online gaming (just a minor hassle). Thanks

You can use a tool called WinMTR, to test jitter/packet loss over time to specific IP's

I haven't seen that Starlink is expected to have drops, it should be a fairly seemless session handover between satellites like with Wireless AP's

 

For gaming (disregarding downloading updates) speed means nothing, its all about the latency and stability of the connection.

Starlink will in general have a higher latency to anything "local", but for longer distances (e.g across the country or to other countries) it could possibly have better latency depending on how good your ISP's peering and routing is, as Starlink can bypass a lot of this routing your traffic across satellites. 

 

Ultimately like my previous answer it depends. Some games will perform better with lower latency overall, and can be more resilient to jitter/packet drops (e.g MOBA's, GTAV, Sea of Thieves, etc...), while other games having a consistant latency with little/no jitter is more important...mostly FPS games like COD, BF, Valorant, etc....