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I just wanted to reply to this topic to let everybody know that I figured out the problem. There is some kind of issue with the Realtek 8520BE wireless card in my wife's laptop. We're using the firmware-realtek package to enable it and after a lot of troubleshooting, we narrowed it down to that WiFi card. It even caused a hard reboot when we tried playing one game together. I was able to play with my brother between a Linux and macOS machine, she was able to play with the firmware removed and using her phone tethered over USB and everything, but if she tries to play with her built-in wireless card the problems return. I have a spare WiFi card laying around I may try to swap into it and see if it works better.

I would like to help with this, but there isn't enough information here to know what the cause of the problem is. I would say that it's rare, but I can think of some possible causes. like wireless interference, router misconfiguration (for example use of port triggering instead of port forwarding or port mapping), use of a VPN protocol like wireguard that doesn't handle large packet sizes, malware protection that monitors and blocks network activity, etc. I can help you interactively via IRC. Otherwise, please post mainlog.html and userreport_hwdetect.txt from each computer. I would suggest that you try connecting both computers with ethernet cables and try connecting to someone else's hosted game, but the problem may not even be at the network at all. Maybe it's caused by competing or disrupting software on one of the computers. I also suggest testing other networked applications, specifically peer-to-peer UDP games like ioquake3.

we really should throw something like this in the game as an easter egg. Imagine putting the cat on a small clay pot inside a house.