Comments on: Creating Your Own Personal Virtual Private Network with Hamachi

By: summoner2100

summoner2100 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:22:52 +0000

Team viewer does only one computer at a time, unlike Hamachi which can have several on the network. Team Viewer also leaves ports open while not in use. The only way to get passed it is to keep uninstalling after you use it. Not that great a program.

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By: SEM

SEM — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:42:16 +0000

Cool piece of software. I always preferred gaming on private LAN networks, but didn’t know about VPN options. I don’t have as many friends that want to play multiplayer games these days, but I’ll definitely give this a shot at some point.

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Remote PC Access Software — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:34:10 +0000

I want to recommend another program that can do this: Proxy Pro 6 from proxy networks. It’s not as easy to set up as this but they have more features.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:38:31 +0000

For one, if you want to play Left4Dead on a LAN using Hamachi, but not have to slow your connection down by going via the internet… any way to get around this?

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By: Cap1ln

Cap1ln — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:47:32 +0000

Just use leaf networks – http://www.leafnetworks.net

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By: crysi

crysi — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:06:22 +0000

I tried out Teamviewer as it also has a VPN and is for free but I was just able to connect to one remote machine. There is no configuration required at all, just type in ID and password, thats all. It provides a Teamviewer generated IP for the VPN which is static. Here is the download link. http://www.teamviewer.com/download/TeamViewer_Setup.exe

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By: Sean M.

Sean M. — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:20:58 +0000

I would like to point out one quirk that might be encountered when trying to use Hamachi for gaming. For some games you may need to give the Hamachi connection the highest priority in order for it to work. To do this (in XP) go to Network Connections -> Advanced (Menu at the top) -> Advanced Settings, and then move Hamachi up to the top of the list. I know for a fact this is necessary in Warcraft III and possibly other games as well.

By: Sean L.

Sean L. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:56:13 +0000

Thanx Travis, will try that…..

By: Aibek

Aibek — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:21:00 +0000

I second Dave,

“why would you need to use Hamachi? If a handful of PCs are set up on a network using a switch, you have local access to all of their IP addresses and wouldn’t need it.“

By: Aibek

Aibek — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:19:09 +0000

I think you should give it more time. I have installed Hamachi several times and in all cases it took several minutes for it to configure Network Connection.

By: Travis Quinnelly

Travis Quinnelly — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:36:07 +0000

Start -> Run. Type “\\yourHamachiIP” (no quotes)
This should show you all of your sharepoints on that workstation/server. Of course, you need to make sure that your Firewall software is allowing in and outbound connections via Hamachi.

By: Sean L.

Sean L. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:32:41 +0000

OK, I got it set up between 2 computers, can chat between the two, now how do I access the files on another computer? Or is this just a feature in the paid version?
As it says above- “Remotely access any PC on the VPN.”
So how do I do stuff besides chat?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:44:23 +0000

This wouldn’t make sense at all.

First of all, Hamachi wouldn’t work, because you need access to remediation servers to create the P2P connection. Hamachi uses a similar method as Skype to punch through firewalls.

But most importantly, why would you need to use Hamachi? If a handful of PCs are set up on a network using a switch, you have local access to all of their IP addresses and wouldn’t need it.

By: sam

sam — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:00:35 +0000

@ Aibek

Is it possible to use Hamachi for gaming without an internet connection. For example, if all pcs ran Hamachi, is it possible to play on the same network that one PC would set up?

By: Sean L.

Sean L. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:43:15 +0000

What I really want to use this for is to have access to files on another computer, thats why I’m going to give it another shot….

By: Sean L.

Sean L. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:40:05 +0000

It froze after install, as it was trying to make a network connection, the part that really freaked me out was how Windows wouldnt boot right after….
I may try installing again today now that I know I can remove it safely….

By: Aibek

Aibek — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:18:32 +0000

I have been using Hamachi (free version) for about 3 years now, mostly for gaming . Easy to use, simple installation, etc. I was a bit skeptical abt it at the beginning and thought that it wont be able to deliver fast gaming experience when playing with friends from other continents. I was wrong.

@ Sean

The Hamachi installation process takes some time. At what stage did it freeze?

By: Sean L.

Sean L. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:09:03 +0000

I tried this out, set up OK on my laptop, but when I set it up on my XP Pro desktop, it froze my computer, then it wouldnt boot up right, had to uninstall the program in safe mode before it would boot up right again, anyone else have a similar problem?