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When attempting to join a public game through 'Browse public games'

Game connects, goes to download map and then loses connection. (2nd screenshot)

Result is replicated when joining the following servers: (no others found to work)
FactorioMMO march community map
RedMew - Quadrants
HyperGaming's Factorio Experience | 0.17.4

Others have successfully joined these servers

I then hosted my own game a got a friend to attempt to join. They experienced the downloading map hanging. (1st screenshot)

They can join the public games mentioned above.

UPDATES:
Same issue occurs in 0.16.51

Changed to an ethernet rather than WiFi connection and it worked. Did occasionally attempt to reconnect during but only momentarily

Thanks for the report however there's nothing here for us to work on. Others can play without problem which means almost certainly not the game but something on your end. I'm going to move this to technical help.