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Mobile Phone Hotspot not letting me play multiplayer games
Hello, so I just started using my Mobile Phone Hotspot to play video games on my laptop(League of Legends, Apex Legends, Battlefield) and initially I had no issues. It was working, but now that I got more speed so I won't lag, my multiplayer games won't connect. My hotspot works, but it's not communicating with video game servers. I looked into it and apparently it deals with porting but that was a few months ago. My games were working just a few weeks ago and now wont connect just recently. Is there a fix or a setting I can do?
Parche
Visita Settings > Connections > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names... Tap the existing entry to open it and screenshot or make a note of the settings.
Go back to the precious screen, Access Point Names... click ...Add and give it whatever name you want. Mimic the settings you took note of but change APN Protocol & APN Roaming Protocol para IPv4 Tap the 3 vertical dots at the top and hit save. Now select your newly created Access Point, your service should disconnect then reconnect.
hope this helps other, worked for me for league of legends
if this don’t work try setting APN Protocol & APN Roaming Protocol para IPv4/IPv6
If this helps any one post your outcome with the name of game your playing
maybe some one can buy this old wounded warrior a meal (will Code For Food) :P
I tried in 5g and it wont work but in 4glte it work. I think is about p to p or something related
Anyone ever find a fix for this because I have not gotten anywhere after spending 2 days talking to support
Rafecreed wrote:
Anyone ever find a fix for this because I have not gotten anywhere after spending 2 days talking to support
Yes, you have to choose the 3rd option down. 3g only or the one above the bottom. Then it works fine. Played overwatch last night, apex legends and discord was working flawlessly. Do USB tethering instead of hotspot
WTF! This is absurd. Upgraded to magenta plan specifically for a lot of multi-player gaming. Same issue. Can't start a game in Carcassone, Fury Unleashed, Diablo. I can start a Diablo game but my buddy can't join. It never sets up the match right. I connected to his phone and Boom. Problem solved.
It's 2022 and t-mobile doesn't even allow us to multi-player game? Ridiculous. Tempted to switch cell phone companies over this
What I really don't get is my Nintendo switch says I'm NAT B on my Hotspot. Which is open. Everything should work. I can access the switch online store just fine. But try to host a game and forget it. On his Hotspot my NAT is D. Which is partially closed and my speed is half. However everything works fine on his Hotspot.
I see some of you drop to 3G and it works. That's crazy we have to do that. I tried 4G and no go. Haven't tried 3G yet. We pay all this money and need to use speeds that are a decade behind. T-mobile needs to fix this!
Hey guys I think I found a fix. For the life of me I can't figure out why this seems to work. But I was able to create a Fury Unleashed game without the connection error. I did try 3G, 4G and 5G. None of those work. Out of desperation I changed WPA2 personal in my security under Hotspot to WPA2/WPA3 Personal. And now everything seems to work
I can't possibly imagine how that would change anything and makes zero sense to me. Give it a try and comment back if it works.
Exileomni wrote:
Parche
Visita Settings > Connections > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names... Tap the existing entry to open it and screenshot or make a note of the settings.
Go back to the precious screen, Access Point Names... click ...Add and give it whatever name you want. Mimic the settings you took note of but change APN Protocol & APN Roaming Protocol para IPv4 Tap the 3 vertical dots at the top and hit save. Now select your newly created Access Point, your service should disconnect then reconnect.
hope this helps other, worked for me for league of legends
if this don’t work try setting APN Protocol & APN Roaming Protocol para IPv4/IPv6
If this helps any one post your outcome with the name of game your playing
maybe some one can buy this old wounded warrior a meal (will Code For Food) :P
I am so hopeful that this may work to fix the problem with my son's switch. It's been showing NAT type D for so long, and after following this instruction it changed to B. We moved across country and it's so important for my son to be able to play games with my little brothers. It helps the distance not feel so big. Anyways when one of them wakes up and can log on I'm really interested to see if it'll finally work. If so I just want to thank you truly from my heart because in this circumstance it's more than just gaming, it's family time and connection between my children and siblings.
Note: I tried it with another phone/company and it seemed to work then .
whats your data usage so far?
I have about 22.14 Gb usage
