Wouldn't Thomy's log out time be different to yours considering he is the owner.
No, he can connect to the client if he hosts it local (being nobody on the home server itself) but the server is hosted somewhere else so he has the same connectivity is my guess.
If you ever hosted a minecraft server you understand ^^ You can connect with localhost or with the ip adress. On localhost you have zero connection issues as you use your own computer to host AND play, requiring no internet connection. This isn't the case with emps though as it's hosted elsewhere.
Anyway, I already noticed the 5s rule doesn't work myself XD Already noted it to thomy though.