Players kicked off repeatedly every 5 minutes in shared world

[LynHaney]

First, thank you for such a fun and graphically beautiful game.

When we cloud-share a world and players are a distance (Dallas & New Orleans) the non-hosting players are kicked off over and over with regular frequency of about 5 minutes apart. It happens to the non-hosting party in either direction. If New Orleans hosts, the Dallas players get kicked and vice versa. We are Steam pc players. Is there a bad server hub between the two regions? It is a continuous problem every time we try to play the shared world. This is also happening when playing a hosted pc based standard world between the two regions. I have uninstalled the game, started a brand new shared world game and it didn't make any difference. We join one another through Steam Friends & Chat. 

Secondly, is there a way to have a shared world on a steam dedicated server for private use as we do for Ark:SE? Thanks for any help.