Two Gamers Same House

Cameron Beyer · September 10, 2022

So I'm not sure is this is exactly the right home for this post but perhaps an admin could move it. I've been having the strangest problem. So me and my two sons all play video games, my oldest and I each have our own gaming PCs. For the life of me I can not figure out how to get both of us to be able to play warzone or wildlands together without a third party involved. Essentially one of my friends can invite both of us, but if we try to join each other it just refuses to work on either of the games. Both of us have Open NAT types, short of ordering a commercial internet connection for two IP addresses I'm not sure how to resolve this. Fortnite works perfectly fine with epics servers but anything with Ubisoft and Activision does not play nice. Not even running a VPN has worked for me.

Holmes108 · September 10, 2022

1 hour ago, Cameron Beyer said:

So I'm not sure is this is exactly the right home for this post but perhaps an admin could move it. I've been having the strangest problem. So me and my two sons all play video games, my oldest and I each have our own gaming PCs. For the life of me I can not figure out how to get both of us to be able to play warzone or wildlands together without a third party involved. Essentially one of my friends can invite both of us, but if we try to join each other it just refuses to work on either of the games. Both of us have Open NAT types, short of ordering a commercial internet connection for two IP addresses I'm not sure how to resolve this. Fortnite works perfectly fine with epics servers but anything with Ubisoft and Activision does not play nice. Not even running a VPN has worked for me.

Someone else will probably be able to speak to this much better, but I can say that I had similar issues with Xboxes a few years ago, and my only solution then was a different router that handled situations like that a little better. Don't know if that can be true for 2 PC's as well, or if there are other work arounds, with forwarding ports, etc... Could try putting one of the PC's in the DMZ if you're comfortable with that, and see if it helps, but you already said you have open NAT's so I'm not sure.