Playing online with two consoles in your home

Hi, Dan. My name is Ron, I'm an independent advisor. I will be more than happy to help you.

Please make sure both accounts have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription or Game Pass Ultimate subscription.

You should be able to play online together with that setup. If your son is using a child account. Please make sure to manage the privacy settings of the child account using the parent account at this link, https://account.xbox.com/settings.

Select the child account there so that we can modify the privacy settings of it then under the tab Xbox One/Windows 10 Online Safety.

Be sure the option You can join multiplayer games is allowed.

It possable to have it on two XBOX ONE's. But you need to have your profile on both console's. One as you home console. And one as friend's console. The home console get offline/online permission. And the friend's console get's online only permission. So
on the other console. You need to be online to played the game. While the home console. You do not need to be online to played the game. Unless the game itself required you to be online.

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From the wording of that article, you can log in on your friends console. That means that console will have gold features, but your home console will still be usable for online. I hope to get some clarification on this soon. So in my thoughts right now....
I could have two consoles. One is my home console with account A. Then console 2 is upstairs. I can log into number 2 with account A, and use gold while number one(being A's home console) can be played online with account B.

1. account (A) home but being played with account (B)

2.account b(not gold) home but being played with (A)

Anyone can dispute or correct me?

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Why not two home or (A) consoles?

Just imagine, that games have two "digital padlocks" so to speak.

For the game to be playable, it's sufficient, if only ONE lock can be opened.

Whenever you buy a downloadable game, your account gets a key to it's "license keyring" stored online on the Xbox online service.

That means, as long as your account is able to go online, it can access its "license keyring" to get the key needed to unlock the game.

A second set of keys for your games is locally stored on your "Home Console". So the console can unlock the game for anyone playing on that console (you, your family members on their own accounts, guests, burglars breaking in your house etc.). Even if the
console is offline.

However for disc based games, the license key is stored on the disc.

So only the console that has the disc in the drive can access the license key to "unlock" the game with the disc.

So if you intend to play a game on your two consoles at the same time, have your other player play on your "Home Console" (as the console will unlock the download game for them), and you play on your "Non-Home Console", as your account will fetch the game
license key from the online keyring.

Since disc based games only have one key on their disc, only the console with the disc can play the game.

So only download games allow you to play the game on two consoles: The Home Console, and the console you are currently online on.

Hey there.

If you set the Xbox to be the home account for your Gamertag, the two boys will be allowed to play Roblox online. Make sure to have the safety and security on your console set before you do this to ensure the boys are safe online.