I've used Hamachi for over 100 computers for around 5 years now. It has
it's pluses and minuses...mostly pluses.
I've also been prompted to look around for another solution and found
nothing as straightforward to install and use. And by "look around" I
mean I went as far as having the tech support for the alternative
product connect remotely and configure their product so it worked.
I also subscribe to Logmein Central, which means Hamachi is included
free in the annual subscription, so if I stopped using Hamachi, it
wouldn't save me anything (and if I use anything else it will be a
direct expense.)
The biggest minus for Hamachi is that it is considered to be "free" from
Logmein and therefor your tech support is of the same value ($0.00).
I've become intimately familiar with Hamachi tech support because of an
ongoing problem with Hamachi and Windows 10 Pro. It's taken nearly 4
months to escalate the problem to the developer level and they're now
"working on it" but I'm not supposed to hold my breath.
In a nutshell, I have all the systems at this one client reboot every
night at 11:30pm.
The Windows XP systems reconnect via Hamachi no problem, ever.
The Windows 7 Pro systems reconnect via Hamachi about 99.999999% of the
time.
The Windows 10 Pro systems reconnect via Hamachi about 85% of the time.
The problem with the 85% of the time is that I never know which of the
80 systems running Win10 will fail to connect, and if a system fails to
connect the end user will discover it the next morning and complain. So
every night, starting around midnight, I connect to each of the
Hamachi-using systems and check the connection, and fix it if necessary.
Oh, the "fix" is sometimes simply restarting the Hamachi service, but
about 75% of the time Hamachi has to be reinstalled.
Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any questions.
Mike Copeland
[email protected] wrote:
https://www.vpn.net/
I'm thinking about becoming a service vendor for several franchisees
of a major corporation. If I needed to set folks up on a VPN, I was
thinking about how simple LogMeIn's products have been, and their
product for VPN was called Hamachi.
Does anyone have any experience with it and can comment, good or bad?
tia,
--Mike
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