Horizons At wits' end with multicrew and wings, looking for help

[CMDR Kyle Donovan]

I don't know what to do. My wife and I have 250 megabit download, 80 megabit upload, and we're constantly de-synching from each other. We have static IPv6 connections, port forwarding is configured as recommended on the tech support page, and we have separate ports for each machine so we're not running over each other's traffic, but the moment I exit supercruise at any station, she (or any other crew member I have) will instantly get a disconnection error and crash back to their ship(s). Same for me if I'm in multicrew.

To clarify, this isn't just with her, but anybody I fly with. I was just pulling up our connection details since I know those the best.

Another event today was trying to get a wing of four ships together. It became a situation where I could only see two others, the person I couldn't see could see two others, and the two others I could see could see me and the other guy. But we couldn't share wing missions, couldn't interact at all. And if one logged out and logged back in, it just switched to a different invisible person. I would join the wing and someone would immediately crash out, and then when they joined back I couldn't see them and they couldn't see me.

I am trying to be positive. I am trying to keep a good outlook, but no matter what configuration I try as "this worked for me" or "x amount of users found this helpful", it doesn't work. Multicrew and wings have been broken for me from the start, across three computers, two ISPs, and a move.

Please, help. What am I missing?

 

[CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE]

If I was in your position I would post this in the Support section and they will almost certainly ask you to open a ticket with your detailed network logs attached.

 

[Misty_Dark]

Try a VPN service.


You say you have IPv6 and that could be the problem here, as most players are on IPv4, and these two are not compatible without any bridging going on (so translating traffic can cause issues). But most VPN services offer IPv4 ip address, and most of the time a public one, which should improve this. VPNM will in most cases create some extra network lag, that for most users should not be noticeably, and in your situation, this would be a huge improvement.



Now to the finicky stuff. free VPN providers have to make money, and your traffic is what they make money on. they simply track you and sell this data.
So a paid VPN provider should not be reliant on tracking you to make money, but we are dealing with companies, so not all are the same.
Also, do not believe VPN providers tale about how they are making you safer on the net, and you are being tracked anyway...




If you need some places to start looking, look at services similar to NordVPN, I picked this one as they are the ones making it rounds trying to get new customers, ie advertisments/Youtube sponsoring .... But just about any VPN service that claims to offer access region locked materials on Netflix, Youtube etc, should work fine for this.

 

[CMDR Kyle Donovan]

Huh. I thought I was being smart by going to IPv6 with Elite. Well, a few clicks and that's fixed. I'll give that a look. Thank you. And I'll check with support as well, as suggested above.