Why does remote play only work at home?

Hi there! This is Ronnie, an independent adviser.

Nice to meet you and I hope you are having a great day!

I understand you need help on your remote play problem.

Just a heads up, remote play features needs stable connection to the network and that has no barriers at least.

Using a network from public sources like your college dorm could be an issue because the network their is secured and is not that stable for you to play through remote play.

I suggest using hotspot instead if you have a stable connection from your phone.

Hope that helps!

Why even have remote play then? Isn’t that kind of a terrible feature? If you need to be in the same location as your Xbox to get it to work, why not just play on your console? Shouldn’t the point of remote play to be able to play on the go when you’re away from your home?

Hi, if possible please try using a different router, exists the possibility that your current router is blocking incoming connections when you're outside.

But before that, check if you can white list the MAC addresses for your mobile devices via router settings

Hi and thanks for reaching Microsoft Xbox gamer's community. My name is Josef.

I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft Xbox user like you.

Hope you're doing great today despite this CoolAchiever472

May I know if you can try leaving connected your Xbox consoles to a completely different wifi network?

For example, share mobile data temporarily via wifi hotspot and connect your Xbox in that way

Then connect one of your mobile devices (the one that you're not using to share mobile data) to the home network and test if you're able to access in that way.

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In the meantime, when you say "I have restarted the Xbox's", do you mean power it off and power it on?

Or power cycling the console?

1. Turn off your console by pressing the Xbox button on the front of the console for about 10 seconds, until it shuts down completely.

2. Unplug the console's power cable from the console and from the power outlet. Wait 5 minutes.

Important: Be sure to wait at least 5 minutes. This step resets the power supply.

3. Plug the console power cable back in.

4. Press the Xbox button on your console to turn it on.

Or instead factory resetting the consoles?

Settings > System > Console info > reset

Josef,

Thanks for your response.

1. Unfortunately my mobile coverage at home is very poor so I can’t connect to anything other than my home network. If I can’t solve this any other way I may try a different router that I have.

2. Since posting this I have found that I am able to stream to my Android phone when it is not on my home network. I did a number of things in between it not working and when it started to work today so I’m not sure which made the difference. I am still, however, unable to stream to my iPhone 13. So that cuts out a lot of the potential causes. I can stream to my iPhone on my home network.

3. I have only soft restarted the consoles - not a full power off as you suggest. I will try that, although as I say above is seems unlikely, given that I can stream to Android but not iOS.