Hamachi
Wednesday, 18. January 2006, 18:01:00
For those who don't know yet, Hamachi is the *bomb* if you will. Really amazing, 0 config VPN. VPNs for the masses. Easy LAN gaming over the net. Easy secure file transfer, whatever. Has a rudimentary chat application built in.
Anyway for most people it's install the tiny (under a meg for windows) application, create an identity (Don't forget to back this up incase the computer crashes) and create or join a network. Up to 16 people in a network for free, and for a low monthly fee you can have 256.
This thing punches through anything that doesn't entirely block UDP, and they are working on relays to punch through that!
Update: I'm actually trialing this for use at work in a production capacity. It's turning out very nice, especially with the free service installer available from their forums. It also plans on supporting TCP relays to get by UDP blocks, so cool - though it will be slow that way - free @ 2KB/s and pay @ ~ 10KB/s. Not as good as I'd hoped, I'd hoped pay would get ~ 100KB/s.
That said, for most use other than file sharing, 10KB/s is plenty.
The Linux client is dead easy to install, and so is the Mac one. The 3rd party GUIs for it are nice as well, and rather functional.
Anyway for most people it's install the tiny (under a meg for windows) application, create an identity (Don't forget to back this up incase the computer crashes) and create or join a network. Up to 16 people in a network for free, and for a low monthly fee you can have 256.
This thing punches through anything that doesn't entirely block UDP, and they are working on relays to punch through that!
Update: I'm actually trialing this for use at work in a production capacity. It's turning out very nice, especially with the free service installer available from their forums. It also plans on supporting TCP relays to get by UDP blocks, so cool - though it will be slow that way - free @ 2KB/s and pay @ ~ 10KB/s. Not as good as I'd hoped, I'd hoped pay would get ~ 100KB/s.
That said, for most use other than file sharing, 10KB/s is plenty.
The Linux client is dead easy to install, and so is the Mac one. The 3rd party GUIs for it are nice as well, and rather functional.
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