Hamachi, the online gamers best friend

[spazman]

I've been using this awsome little program for a few weeks now and its still impressing me. It's a VPN program that lets you play games online with friends with the game thinking your all on a LAN. No need to forward ports or worry about NAT hamachi will work regardless.

I came across it after a friend and I spent 45 mins trying to get his router to forward the correct ports to play, only to have it work for 5 mins then fail (thanks netgear). A tiny download, and 30 seconds of configuration and we were playing without problems for hours, and game that has LAN network gaming will work like a dream. I highly reccomend it for anybody throwing together a last minute game of anything.

Heres the link, enjoy http://hamachi.cc/download/

Off to play some co-op HL2

[Craig321]

Hi,

I just wondered, with this Hamachi, would I be able to set one up, my bro would connect and then we both play on BF2 using the same CD-key?

Thanks,
Craig.

[kalniel]

That depends if BF2 allows LAN play with the same key. They don't usually.

[spazman]

I dont know about using the same key, i'd assume no.

[Tobeman]

Been using this program over a year now. So handy!

[frood]

looks an interesting app, thanks for the heads up

[Naggallywoo]

Having used it to play games I can say it's a great program, it definatly beats having to use the buggy online modes on some games (and of course you can use it on some old games which don't use the net but support lan).
Just remember that you might need to do a bit of tweaking for some games to run over it, for help on this look at their forums.

[MysticBiscuit]

Cracking app.. Extremely useful for old games! This should be installed with windows as standard

[cptwhite_uk]

Most innovative and useful program for years. Brilliant.

[leeglf]

just set this up i cant believe how easy it is to use!

[Dooms]

Sounds like a good app, I dont have any use for it atm but its nice that its out there and i now know about it for when i do

[Fatboy40]

Yep, damn good bit of free software.

Be aware though that not all games work as if they are on a LAN !. Need for Speed needs some tweaks and Counter Strike: Source needs 'sv_lan 0' entered at the console.

There are three of us that play co-op games quite often on it and for a free tool it's excellant. As an example we usualy play BF2 and I have a TeamSpeak server running on my PC and we have no lag at all

[dangel]

Been using this for some time - very handy for remote desktoping into PCs as it sorts out all the firewall issues for you. Excellent for gaming too and LAN modes mean you don't need third-party online gaming apps installed.
It just "works". Highly recommended.

[dancingmatt]

You can remote desktop with it? I have 2 PCs, one with XP Home and one with XP MCE 2005, and I'd like to control the desktop of one (so I can use applications on it) from the other.

Could I do this with Hamachi? I'm about to try to do it with VNC.

And does anyone know a mirror hosting Hamachi? I can't download it from work since it's blocked as a peer-to-peer site.

DM

[dangel]

You can remote desktop with it? I have 2 PCs, one with XP Home and one with XP MCE 2005, and I'd like to control the desktop of one (so I can use applications on it) from the other.

Could I do this with Hamachi? I'm about to try to do it with VNC.

And does anyone know a mirror hosting Hamachi? I can't download it from work since it's blocked as a peer-to-peer site.

DM

I meant you could use remote desktop _through_ it - just like you could for any LAN pc (as that's what hamachi does - creates a VPN LAN by magic).

[Craig321]

You can remote desktop with it? I have 2 PCs, one with XP Home and one with XP MCE 2005, and I'd like to control the desktop of one (so I can use applications on it) from the other.

Could I do this with Hamachi? I'm about to try to do it with VNC.

And does anyone know a mirror hosting Hamachi? I can't download it from work since it's blocked as a peer-to-peer site.

DM

You can do anything you'd usually do on a network with Hamachi