I recently dove back into FM5 in anticipation of FM6. Three days ago, I tried to create a private match for me and my friends. (This is the first time on FM5 multiplayer in at least a month.) Creating the private match failed. In fact, it has been failing for the last three days. In all, I cannot create a match, join a friend, or connect to the hoppers. (It will find lobbies, but joining fails.) Everything else on Forza and Xbox Live functions as it should. Every other device connected to my network functions fine. Here are the different things that I have done to troubleshoot:
Tried both local WiFi bands (2.4 & 5) as well as hardwired through router- All XBL ports open- Set Xbox One to a static IP address and enabled DMZ- Hardwired straight to modem- Xbox Live Support was unable to find a solution
*For each attempt, I reboot my modem, router, and hard reset the XOne.
I am currently at work, and FM5 should finish reinstalling by the time I get home. I will try any suggestions then. Thank you everyone for your help.
I haven’t seen anything official, but I think there may be server issues. A friend of mine is also having trouble getting into multiplayer and I am having issues getting photos to share/unshare. It took forever to load my gallery page last night, wasn’t my internet connection either as every other page I tried was fine
I had this same problem for many months until one day I took 2 of my 3 X1’s off of my network completely. Everything worked fine after that in both FM5 and FH2. Hook up the other X1’s to the network, things all break for some reason. Found out it was my router. Confirmed not able to handle more than a single X1 with NAT enabled. Not sure if this will help or not, but it took me more than 6 months to figure it all out. Putting my 2nd X1 in the DMZ allows my main X1 to still correctly create and join MP servers, but I see that it apparently has not helped in your original post.
I have started get the message “multiplayer is unavailable please try again later” message for 2 weeks now. I am trying to get the last few achievements before Forza 6 gets released. Any help would be great. Thank you.