If this would be a networking issue it would not be worse when being near biters/in combat. Your machine is likely not able to keep up with the server, see https://forums.factorio.com/68653. I never had any problems in single player mode. It is not only when near/fighting biters it hapens frequentl...

Actually: 3G/4G is in fact a shared medium between all users on the same cell. However since your own internet connection works I rather suspect the problem to be on the side of your friend, even though it runs lagfree on his end. The reason for that is that he isn't running the game online at all ...

This does not state how much of that theoretical througput is actually available(!). Might be shared medium (cable-internet, WiFi(!)), might be ppl in the same network streaming videos, might be ppl uploading files (torrent-uploads, etc.), some kind of firewall (local or provider-side). Considering...

we are running both on factorio zone free server. i have same lag even if i am playing alone on this server (friend offline) What's your friend's connection like? Since he has no lag he seems to run the game locally and you are connecting to his instance of the game. So when his connection is bad (o...

Hello guys, I apologize for my double post, idk where to put it I need some help about this free multiplayer features. First of all i would like to thank the creator of that staff...really very helpfull. Now lets talk about my problem. I started playing with my friend yesterday and i have frequently...

Hello guys, I need some help about this free multiplayer features. First of all i would like to thank the creator of that staff...really very helpfull. Now lets talk about my problem. I started playing with my friend yesterday and i have frequently lag. The game is running very well on my laptop (60...

I apologize for my noob-ity

Hello guys, It's my first post here so i have to congratulate devs for this great game. This post is just a suggestion of a signal placing helper so i though to make this post ( i dont know if there is a mod like this but i didnt find it till now) I found this image on search http://i.imgur.com/tUNU...