Connectivity Issues

Hey - first post to the forums but been on the game for a year or so.

The last fortnight, a friend and I have not been able to play E:D on XB1 at all - I can't even get past the initial loading screen, except for maybe 15/30 minutes yesterday after following some of advice given by Frontier Support. Both of our issues began around the same time, and they are the exact same: every time we try and log in we get messages of "Cannot connect to the matchmaking/adjudication servers." We don't live together or share internet, so it seems unusual to me that two of us developed problems simultaneously. It's truly infuriating. I managed to connect to my Xbox to my phone using hotspot, and that seemed to work, but it's hardly a fix, and it confused me even more as to the cause of the problem. I've opened a ticket (Frontier Support are truly great by the way, this isn't a raging post aimed at them at all) and gotten a few suggestions, all of which I followed through with, but none of which have solved the problem. They seem to think it could be my router - which it may well be, the damned thing is totally ancient - and that the fact my friend and I developed problems concurrently is a coincidence, but this seemed unlikely to me. I'm not having issues with any other game or any other device in my home, it is literally just E:D, but again FS told me that games can connect in many many ways, so it shouldn't be surprising that it's just their game that has an issue.

Is anybody else having issues?

Also, if any of the support team are reading this, thanks for the help so far! o7 (no sarcasm).

CMDR I Cerberus I
 
No issues for me on this game or others.
ifyour cell phone as a hot spot didn’t have issues maybe it’s truly your modem/router?
 
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I think it probably is to be honest, but I just wanted to check if anybody else was having issues and had fixed it without buying a whole new router. It's weird because I called my ISP and they said they couldn't see any changes to my settings over the last few weeks except for those I have made in the last few days to try and fix the problem. Very odd indeed!
 
Yeah, I haven't been able to get into the game at all for about a week or so. I can't check it that regularly to see if the issue has been corrected because I work about 12 or 13 hours a day, but every other game I have worked fine for me
 
I had the same problem a while ago. I played for over a year and then all of a sudden I couldn't. I could connect, but I couldn't stay connected. Every transition or loading screen, bang, transaction or connection error.
I spoke to a very clever chap at Plusnet and he said although they have been having DNS issues with a certain range, my DNS wasn't within that range. Changing the DNS setting in my router would still fix it, he said, but because the settings in my model couldn't be changed, Plusnet sent me a new, better router. That worked.

If you're able to change the DNS address in your router, I suggest you try that first.

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using
 
I actually changed the DNS settings on my Xbox itself to Google's DNS as per Frontier's advice, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, with no luck. Interesting that it's not just me at least. Need to get it sorted by 2.4...
 
Me too... and Ive done exactly the same as you... and more,

Ive reset the router, reset the xbox cache, hardwired the console, changed dns, deleted local save file... you name it. What is infuriating is that when I connect by mobile I can see that the full connection process uses less than 5mb of data!!! This started happening about 24 hours ago.

In a rage, I loaded a new game using my wifes xbox account. THIS WORKS FINE!!! (same console, same internet etc) I have logged in/out a few times using her account with no issues. I switched back to me and it didnt load. Back to alt account, all fine.

So... what?
 
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ha...same issue for 5 weeks, same list of suggested fixes, tried all with no luck...allofa sudden today i have been able to connect for the whole day (with some crashes however)

thing as "I" changed nothing before the issues started, playing for 18 month no prob...then about when the Beta started i could not get connections to matchmaking servers at all for E.D (and i am aware Xbox is "beta free" )

All seems a bit Random

Latest suggestion is to wait till this weeks update is done and see of that makes a dfference.

That said , today , all else the same as last several attempts to connect, i am connecting

good luck, seems RNG gods may be involved
 
yeah, alt account not working now either...

perhaps its server capacity??? lastthime this happened it was around the time of thargoid encounters with hoards of people online. Now i assume similar with people getting ranked up for 2.4.

can anyone tell me what elite is actually doing when the orange ship is spinning?
 
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Same problem here! Since 15 minutes or so im unable to stay in the game. It loads and i also see that friends are playing but i get kicked after a minute or if i try to jump.
 
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