u/fflip8

To keep it simple, I've been on a journey over the years living in a handful of cities around the US, and this experience has opened my eyes to how society can change in unanticipated ways. In Denver a concerning number of drivers used their car's left turn signal to go right, and right turn car signals to go left.

In Chicago almost daily I've seen people pull up on the shoulder or parking lane just to go straight and cut you off instead of parking or turning right. Chicago also doesn't maintain the lane markings on roads, they just paint when they resurface and let it fade to nothing until the next resurfacing. This baffled me and it felt like I was driving in a foreign country with the anarchy on many wide city roads without paint.

In New Orleans a sizable minority if not outright majority of people are comfortable littering, just blatant throw this out my window, throw that off the sidewalk behavior.

But what about Los Angeles? It's next on my list and I'm so curious to learn about the odd things people or even the city government does that people just accept as normal in and around LA.

Long story short, there's only three internet providers where she lives. Optimum (Fraudulent/scam corporation), T-Mobile 5g internet (slow/intermittent), and Starlink.

Recently she got star link and found it was working good like 90% of the time, but as of a month or two ago the service quality tanked. On one hand it's still better than T-Mobile and Optimum, both of which will go down for hours at a time where she lives. But on the other hand, the experience is still far from seamless. She can't even play a match of Apex Legends with me (or really any online game) without freezing/floating in the air every minute for multiple seconds at a time. Ping tests online show 1000+ms spikes for 10+ seconds at a time, before returning back under 100ms. It's almost like there's an invisible Elon Musk unplugging the router and plugging it back in to mess with her family lol.

The app shows perfect alignment/zero interference and there's no tree cover above the dish on the roof of the house. Star link support just confirmed that the signal strength is fine and the dish is communicating with the satellites. Is starlink just not good for gaming? What could she be doing wrong? It's not just her PC experiencing issues. Even web browsing on a phone using the star link router wifi will be intermittent, where pages are frozen and unable to load until suddenly the connection comes back and everything loads instantly.

What is there to do to troubleshoot?

I've been getting back into playing online after taking a break for a year and now it seems only 1 out of every 5 matches can complete successfully. Either I fail to enter a match with "game session no longer available", or on the few times when it does load in, just when I think I'm starting and getting some kills everything freezes and I fall through the map, and an ethernet icon pops up in the middle of the screen with connection issues. Eventually says I lost connection to the host. It's hard to figure out what the problem is, because no other games I play disconnect like this. I could do Apex Legends for hours without lag, but then I try to play cold war and it's like the game isn't even working anymore and rarely can I finish a single match without getting kicked.

NAT says "Moderate", but it always says that, even when the game worked fine a year ago.