Stephen Rothery
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I just had a friend enable personal hotspot on an iPhone 5s, IOS 9.3.2 , mcpe 0.15.0.
He started minecraft to host server and got the same message about needing to be connected to wifi.
Yea i don't see an option to sign out that doesn't just immediately require me to sign back in.
I tried toggling things like broadcast to xbox live and use cellular data, but none of them helped.
Interestingly this is similar behavior to what happens on Android when you try to play with others using mobile hotspot. Basically since the last update, the one whose phone is creating the hotspot will give the same error message, even though it can see the server, meanwhile all devices connecting to the hotspot can play fine.
I am having this issue with minecraft windows 10 edition too.
Getting this message on two seperate Win10 laptops when trying to join a game on the LAN they are connected to. iOS and Android devicesnconnect fine on the same network.
Can see the server fine, just wont let me connect.
Used to work until a recent update 😞
Issue isn't the network, no packet loss and other services work.
I did a bit more research and it is actually an issue with the Win10 version. Basically the network you are connected to needs to have an a working internet connection.
I added a second wifi adapter that connected to a network with an internet connection and it then allowed the PC to join the server running on the original network which doesn't connect to the internet. (The laptop was simultaneously on both) Once connected, the traffic was routed through the correct interface to the local server. Upon disconnecting the internet enabled wifi network, the local connection to the server died too.
This behavior isn't present on Android or iOS. Both will happily connect to a wifi network and let you play multiplayer without that network being connected to the internet.
So playing around with it a bit it seems that enabling "use cellular data" on Android devices allows the person hosting the hotspot to join a server hosted by one lf the hotspot clients. It still doesn't allow the user hosting the hotspot to also host the server on Android. (It seems that the celular data option isn't there on iOS)