Well, like any good piece of software that some small guy makes and it gets big, it gets bought up by some much bigger company, leaving the thought of it staying as good as it was in total limbo. Enter Hamachi.
My favorite utility for making small private VPN’s that will stretch through anything just got bought out by the company that brings you logmein.com. Nothing against their new owner, but nothing on this new site is free, thus the fear that soon, there won’t be a basic free version of Hamachi either (the program does have a premium subscription model, but but people who don’t need more then 16 people per network, free is just fine). So far, the forum chatter suggests little will change, but who knows.
Should this awesome program die, I will be more then happy to help everyone find a new cool program ASAP!
The first commenter did point out that there is LogMeIn Free. I must have just missed this (or more likely, saw the registration and Flash Demo of it and thought all that was free was the demo, which wasn’t right). I’ll have to give this a shot and review it here soon.
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Dude, what do you mean? Logmein has had a free version (called Logmein Free) for as long as they’ve been a company; it’s kind of what they’re known for. Alex said on the hamachi website that Hamachi is going to stay free, and Logmein is no stranger to having such a thing as its business model. I wouldn’t worry
Good call. I didn’t look far enough in there, post updated to show this.
From your experience, is there free client pretty quick?
Yeah it’s really quick. I reccomend it to my friends all the time and I use it basically every day.