AT&T: Issues connecting to a specific friend on Peer to Peer games.

ValTissueRipper · May 21, 2018

AT&T (ISPs): Issues connecting to a specific friend on Peer to Peer games.
My friend and I are having issues connecting to each other over certain games. Example games are: Elite: Dangerous, Warframe, and Payday 2. All games that use Peer to Peer connections. We both have Open NAT and hardwired connections which is why this situation
is so strange. Further examples of the issue: In Elite: Dangerous, My friend and I are unable to join up in a wing. We are even unable to send direct text messages to each other in game. In Warframe, we are unable to join on each other. In Payday 2, we are
unable to join a lobby that the other person is in. All these situations just send us the error, "Unable to connect to host (or player or other such information.)". Any idea what is keeping us from connecting to each other?

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CrazY1985 · May 21, 2018

Issues connecting to a specific friend on Peer to Peer games.

Please make sure the both of you have the ports opened in your router as described in this link:

Xbox One Network Ports | Xbox Live Network Ports

ValTissueRipper · May 21, 2018

Issues connecting to a specific friend on Peer to Peer games.

My friend and I are having issues connecting to each other over certain games. Example games are: Elite: Dangerous, Warframe, and Payday 2. All games that use Peer to Peer connections. We both have Open NAT and hardwired connections which is why this situation
is so strange. Further examples of the issue: In Elite: Dangerous, My friend and I are unable to join up in a wing. We are even unable to send direct text messages to each other in game. In Warframe, we are unable to join on each other. In Payday 2, we are
unable to join a lobby that the other person is in. All these situations just send us the error, "Unable to connect to host (or player or other such information.)". Any idea what is keeping us from connecting to each other?

ValTissueRipper

Please make sure the both of you have the ports opened in your router as described in this link:

https://support.xbox.com/xbox-one/networking/network-ports-used-xbox-live

Already done. We did find a workaround for most of the games. The workaround was to use Google DNS servers for both parties instead of our ISP's. The only one giving us issues now is Warframe. I have no idea what is causing it to
have issues when all the other games work fine. The specific error we get on Warframe when connecting to each other for a mission or squad is "Failed to join session (host unreachable)" Any other suggestions?

CrazY1985

Please make sure the both of you have the ports opened in your router as described in this link:

https://support.xbox.com/xbox-one/networking/network-ports-used-xbox-live

SteveMS12

I'm having similar issues with AT&T U-verse. High pings and packet loss. I've had 4 techs to my house and exhausted everything I can do with AT&T.

With the recent Netflix peering issues on some of these networks I'm wondering if the MS peering partner has bottlenecks going to the providers. It seems that the providers are playing a crappy game of not upgrading connections to clog 3rd party peering
partners so they can sell direct to the major bandwidth services.

Galactic Geek

Wow, even I have a better understanding now. Thanks, OP!

UneasyJmitchell

Ping and Latency is how the matchmaking works, so in theory, everyone should have about the same connections. The Upload is the biggest part of connections for gaming but it does make sense that the lobby is only going to be as good as its slowest occupant,
but I am not positive. I also believe the lag comp was added into gaming to ease the Godmode host that host used to have and they (the devs) try to even the playing field, so to speak by adding some delay in the connections (however minute) but I think it
kinda fails. I mean I do have great games with great connections alot of the time, but "in general" people complain of the lag. It is what it is.

AT&T: Issues connecting to a specific friend on Peer to Peer games.