I've got a multiplayer question... My internet connection is pretty crappy and generally quite slow. I pay for 10 Mbps but I get a maximum actual download speed of about 300 kbps, and upload speed around 10 kbps. This is clearly too slow, but at the moment, there are literally no other options in my neighborhood, and calling tech support is useless - they know I have no other options and won't even reduce the amount I pay. In the past, I was able to play Minecraft with my mom using a virtual LAN on Hamachi. Over time, Hamachi started having more and more problems, and eventually we were unable to get it working at all - it just won't connect anymore. Our games were getting laggier and laggier over time, too, which I assumed was my internet connection getting worse (as it does seem to be doing). But we were always able to play before. Now we've given up on Hamachi and are trying Evolve. It's so laggy that it's completely unplayable. It takes ages for me to connect to her (she's the one hosting the LAN, since she has fast internet), I'm unable to do anything (it literally takes me 3 minutes to open a chest, and even sending chat text takes several minutes), and after a few minutes I get booted. We thought it was because we were using voice chat and that was hogging the bandwidth, so I turned off the voice chat and everything else using the internet connection, and it still doesn't work. Zero improvement.
I know my internet isn't great, but I feel like maybe it's the virtual LAN that's making it completely unplayable. Does anyone have any experience with this? Is Evolve no good? Is there another option now that Hamachi has imploded? Or is it really just my internet, and I have no options until I save up enough money to move to a neighborhood with faster internet?