huh... now I'm having another weird problem. It's related, I think So, while downloading my friend's map (it's now about 4mb, we removed the replay.dat and shaved off about 3mb. Thanks for that tip btw) we're getting super close, but the transfer fails at the very end. I'm suspecting it's Factorio a...

Yes, the game just utterly spams UDP packets until it jams up itself and everything else (confirmed this with Wireshark). This is an extremely bad bug that has rendered me incapable of playing multiplayer anymore. Lol ya after reading the wikia bout Factorio's multiplayer framework I came to that c...

Dang. Thanks though. I'll try that. I figured it was worth a shot asking, like if there was some hidden config file with a network parameter or something that I was missing. Maybe in the final release there will be some sort of a network limit slider

I play via hamachi with my friend and he has a relatively weak internet connection. For reaons, he has to host the game for us to play privately with just us, as when I host, he times out. I can download the games from him just fine, but it takes a while to download as he has a slow internet connect...