We have two Nintendo Switches and have been playing on a 10 player realm since around Christmas and have bought two copies of Minecraft from the Nintendo store. Performance has gotten worse over time to the point it is now unusable. We play on desktop/laptop pc on the same realm and can play all day (one wifi and one wired connection) without being kicked. Also android and ipad seem ok. The Switch loses connection after a few minutes. Today we tried a connection on the home router and it lost connection after 3 minutes. So we setup a phone as hotspot and it lost connection after 4 minutes. So we went and bought two Nintendo licenced USB to ethernet adapters, disabled wifi autoconnect and restarted the Switch. It would not connect. We tried two different network switches and two different cables. While this was happening a PC was continuously connected to the realm on the same Internet connection. Then one of the kids tried to connect with the other switch and it lost connection after a few minutes.
Our Internet connection is only 50Mbps but is reliable and we are not having any issues on other platforms. We had the same problem on a very good tethered mobile connection (phone also does not experience these disconnects).
Update: Nintendo OS to 8.0.1 and Minecraft to 0.11 on 24 April and no change from 0.10. Both switches disconnecting repeatedly. Game still very slow to start. No problems on other platforms using same network.
Confirming signs do not retain text at all on our 1.18 realm. Created at launch. Mix of devices: Switch, Android, Win10. Possibly related still can't use anvil to reliably rename nametags or weapons/tools. Less impact from books and chat here but not being able to use signs or rename items significantly impacts play-ability as it impacts on so many aspects of the game. This should be number 1 priority for an urgent big fix patch. Work on the betas and frogs after this is fixed.
I can confirm this today. Everyone had full nether on the realm we hadn't noticed problems but a new realm member went to get equipped today and beds no longer explode.
We have two Nintendo Switches and have been playing on a 10 player realm since around Christmas and have bought two copies of Minecraft from the Nintendo store. Performance has gotten worse over time to the point it is now unusable. We play on desktop/laptop pc on the same realm and can play all day (one wifi and one wired connection) without being kicked. Also android and ipad seem ok. The Switch loses connection after a few minutes. Today we tried a connection on the home router and it lost connection after 3 minutes. So we setup a phone as hotspot and it lost connection after 4 minutes. So we went and bought two Nintendo licenced USB to ethernet adapters, disabled wifi autoconnect and restarted the Switch. It would not connect. We tried two different network switches and two different cables. While this was happening a PC was continuously connected to the realm on the same Internet connection. Then one of the kids tried to connect with the other switch and it lost connection after a few minutes.
Our Internet connection is only 50Mbps but is reliable and we are not having any issues on other platforms. We had the same problem on a very good tethered mobile connection (phone also does not experience these disconnects).
Update: Nintendo OS to 8.0.1 and Minecraft to 0.11 on 24 April and no change from 0.10. Both switches disconnecting repeatedly. Game still very slow to start. No problems on other platforms using same network.
Confirming signs do not retain text at all on our 1.18 realm. Created at launch. Mix of devices: Switch, Android, Win10. Possibly related still can't use anvil to reliably rename nametags or weapons/tools. Less impact from books and chat here but not being able to use signs or rename items significantly impacts play-ability as it impacts on so many aspects of the game. This should be number 1 priority for an urgent big fix patch. Work on the betas and frogs after this is fixed.
I can confirm this today. Everyone had full nether on the realm we hadn't noticed problems but a new realm member went to get equipped today and beds no longer explode.