Multiple Consoles (PS4's) on Same Network

I'd like to bump this as it's been about a week now with no replies.  I still haven't found a stable way to make this work for both consoles, and I haven't gotten any direction from EA.

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@TrevT93 wrote:

I'd like to bump this as it's been about a week now with no replies.  I still haven't found a stable way to make this work for both consoles, and I haven't gotten any direction from EA.

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I've heard of this problem with many different  multiplayer games. Have you also checked the official Playstation  forums as Sony may have an official recommendation on how to do this since it's their hardware?

We've noticed a similar issue in Black Ops III, but no, I haven't found a working solution in the PlayStation forums either (incidentally, I have another thread going there with no responses...).

https://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Network-Support/MULTIPLE-PLAYSTATION-4-s-ONE-NETWORK-NEEDS-FIXED-ASAP-Confirmed/td-p/44774137 - suggests that there are certain port openings one should watch for in their UPnP configuration.  With those openings, one should basically reset the UPnP server on their router and then manually forward the ports to the PS4's.  I tried that and the PS4's still opened ports through UPnP that weren't the ones I was forwarding.

https://community.us.playstation.com/t5/Consoles-Peripherals/Two-PS4-s-on-the-the-same-network-cause-NAT-incompatibility-with/td-p/45132971 - suggests that static IP's should work, or failing that, put one PS4 in the router's DMZ.  Neither approach has worked for me.

https://community.us.playstation.com/t5/Consoles-Peripherals/2-PS4-s-on-the-same-network-not-working-getting-error-NW-31295-0/td-p/45181843 - suggests that using ethernet on both consoles (rather than wifi) should fix the issue, but I've given that a shot too, no dice.

In other news - the second PS4 in the apartment broke down this weekend.  Appears to be the PSU.  Going to manually replace it this weekend, but until then the only real problem now is sharing the one remaining PS4 lol

I got this for PS4 a couple of weeks ago and have been experiencing this problem.  When we first fire up the PS4s, we are able to play a few games together.  Then, we go to join a game and the originator gets in, when the partner tries to join, they are stuck at joining until they get the message "You have been disconnected etc.".  Two PS4s in the same house.  Upnp is enabled.

Trev - were you ever able to find a solution that worked?

This is pretty easy to solve.  It will require a laptop (either MAC or PC) with a VPN connection.  One PS4 will connect using standard WIFI connected to main router network.  The second PS4 will connect wirelessly to the laptop that is using the VPN connection on the same network (essentially using it as a second router).  This will assign it a completely different service provider IP address.

The key is to ensure the two PS4s are using two completely different IP addresses (not the IP address your router assigned equipment but an IP the service provider provides).

--Your welcome.

I'm having the same issue with my 360s and Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare! Both of my 360s are wired to the same router. The response to my thread sent me here. I'll try one on wireless and one wired and see if that helps. Will report back if it solves the issue.

@maughanora434 

Thanks for the tip!

There's some additional solutions found in this post too.

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Cannot-play-with-roommate-on-same-wifi/m-p/7420250#M358

Hi everyone I had the same problem so I went into the PlayStation network settings and changed the DNS server settings on one of the PlayStations. they were both on the google servers primary DNS = 8.8.8.8 the secondary DNS 8.8.4.4 on the second PlayStation I used  Quad9 servers Primary DNS 9.9.9.9 Secondary DNS 149.112.112.112 This worked for me hopefully it will work for you