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Nintendo Switch - Mario Kart 8
Hi,
Recently I have been unable to play Mario Kart 8 on the Nintendo Switch online play. Each time I try to connect my console to the online play of my friends that create a room it constantly gives me a communication error. I’ve connected my device to my Home wifi network, reset my TMobile rourter and logged back in. Is there a fix for this?
Thank you,
Ryan
Forgot these hot aired people.
The problem is a 5G Nokia gateway will not change your global IP address on your switch, even if you create a Wi-Fi connection with no security through 192.168.12.1, it still won't work. Global IP ending in .xx.xx.226 (I've seen it change to .xx.xx.224) all the time you will not connect to Mario Kart 8. Not sure how much support is left for the game as Nintendo stated a new Mario Kart is coming out this year. If you got a 2024 5G T-Mobile device (2024 BYOD works too) turn on your hotspot and put encryption to: NONE.
Watch how your global IP address always changes when you reconnect to your smartphone's hotspot.
The only other way I can think of to reset the global IP address on your 5G Nokia Gateway without a power reset is to remove and reinsert it's SIM card on the bottom which should reset it each time you reconnect with your local 5G tower. Way easier just turning off "hotspot" and back on with a smart device.
You may need to turn your hotspot on and off a few times before connecting but each time you run an internet test it should change your global IP address and if it does not well you'll get same issue as you did with your "GATEWAY", see that, keyword there. So, you'll always be using the Gateway's global IP address on the internet and nothing you can do about it. Here it is again: GATE-WAY!
It looks like someone found a fix on the following forum.
https://community.t-mobile.com/tv-home-internet-7/nintendo-switch-w-nok-5g21-gateway-36927
Good luck!
