Cannot invite people when using my phone as WiFi hotspot: solutions?

[GolguiAr]

Hey everyone,

When I use my phone as a WiFi hotspot for ACNL, I cannot invite people over to my town: they see my gates open, but when they try to connect they get an error message. I can visit other villages perfectly fine though.

I have tried with quite a few people, but it never worked. And I do not have any other source of WiFi but my phone ^^' Has anybody with the same issue managed to solve it? If so, how?

Cheers

 

[Stella-Io]

Hate to break it to ya, but there are no solutions. Take it from someone who had to use a mobile hotspot for maybe 2 or 3 years: THEY SUCK TRASH. The only thing a mobile hotspot is good for in terms is dreaming (very very rarely did I have problems) seeing on your Friend List who's online, forcing SwapDoodle to load new notes, visiting the Nintendo Eshop (last time I tried, downloading doesn't work) and that's about it. Sounds like alot? It isn't. Connections are slow, errors are constant, disconnecting is inevitable, not even connecting is a given. No Smash multilplayer, Tortimer Island always timed me out after 15 or 20 mins, and hotspots are so touchy. One time it worked with someone, but errored after a while. Days later I try to go to their town again and are completly unable too, despite the fact I already did. I'm surprised yours even lets you visit towns fine. Anytime my Nintendo or games needed an update, I had to use the WiFi at my grocery store or what I think was once a Nintendo Zone spot.

I've tried multiple 'solutions', none worked. Changing security type, password, ect... The only thing I haven't done was dismantle the firewall, which I do NOT recommend doing. Plain simple of it all, a mobile hotspot can be great in a pinch, but as a long running source, it has lots of limits and restrictions.

 

[GolguiAr]

Wow I understand your frustration ah ah ^^' Except for inviting people my phone behaves OK. It even lets me update my console ^^ That being said I must say I have not try downloading stuff from the e-shop, and I never stay more than 2 min in someone's town (just to drop off or pick up stuff), or 10 min in a dream. Maybe if I try staying more the connection will crash ^^'

Maybe it depends on the phone itself as well, my connection seems more reliable than yours given what you are describing. Thank you for your reply, at least I know there is nothing I can do for my problem!

 

[Stella-Io]

Yeah it seems our phones are different. Mine is an outdated un-updated Galaxy Samsung S5 that constantly voids all reception in my room. I've heard of someone else using their phone as a hotspot for their Xbox or Playstatiom, I forget which, and they said it works fine :/

For dreaming since I extremely rarely had problems, I imagine you will have near to none, I would dream for 1 or 2 hours on end. I wish there was more I could say for hotspots, but they seem limited compared to the real deal WiFi by a router.

 

[ElectroCat]

Is your phone fully updated?

 

[GolguiAr]

Always has been updated to the latest version of iOS yes!

 

[ElectroCat]

Always has been updated to the latest version of iOS yes!

Hmm... How good is the mobile data on your phone (e.g. fast)

 

[GolguiAr]

Hmm... How good is the mobile data on your phone (e.g. fast)

It is pretty fast yeah, I have 4G where I live, and when I visit other people's towns it always works fine. I still have not found out why a connection via phone is one-way in my case... I recently saw that my laptop can be used as a hotspot too, I will give it a try when I get the occasion!

 

[ElectroCat]

Hmm, I think (and am not sure) that the phone cannot handle the data that is needed to process in order to become the host. As I said, this is a guess.

 

[GolguiAr]

Might be, but I do not know how to be sure. If I could identify the actual source of the issue that might help finding a solution, but I cannot :/ But if indeed it is a problem of data flow then there is not much I can do unless find another type of hotspot.

 

[ElectroCat]

Yes, you cant really solve the problem if you cannot find the actual source, and really the only way to fix it is to get a different hotspot. Keep in mind I made a guess based on the info I have, so it may not be correct.

 

[Merpology]

It?s based on how good your service is and might be based on your phone itself too. I have an iPhone XR and use my hotspot all the time for visitors, visiting, downloading from the eshop, and even watching Netflix on my laptop and it works great. Wish I could help more. Maybe try going to Starbucks and using their WiFi?

 

[GolguiAr]

Maybe it is just the iPhone itself then ^^ it is a 7.
I will try with my own computer before relying on public or corporate wifi networks. That would really be a last resort. Or I can just visit people, it has been working fine so far. It is too bad for my train station though, I would love to make it modern ^^'