Hamachi

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:32 pm

Free (core version), simple VPN, great for LAN games (bnetd, what?)

Homepage:
http://www.hamachi.cc/

Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamachi

Just in case people didn't know of it. I just heard about it from a co-worker yesterday, who uses it for WarCraft3.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:59 pm

Used it last semester to get around stupid port-forwarding issues when trying to use remote desktop tools and stuff. It's quite stable and very useful.

Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:33 pm

You guys ever used Kali back in the day?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_%28game_browser%29

We directly dialed into each other's modems to play WC and WC2, cuz this whole "Internet" thing was too hard.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:50 pm

Haha yeah I used Kali. I think I used it for a couple games but the only one I remember was Command & Conquer.

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:52 pm

Nope, never used Kali personally, but I vaguely remember hearing about it.

Since IPX conjured up images of the past, "back in my day..." LAN parties involved physically moving hardware!

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:06 pm

Yep, I used Kali.

Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:27 pm

Question. What do your LAN involve now, if not physically moving hardware?

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:46 pm

Dwindlehop wrote:Question. What do your LAN involve now, if not physically moving hardware?

Er, are you asking how to hold a LAN party without physically moving hardware?

If that's what you mean, that's why I mentioned Hamachi, although then it's really a VLAN party instead of a LAN party. Regarding communication, there's always TeamSpeak and Ventrilo, then again, I still don't own a microphone.

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:57 pm

VLSmooth wrote:then again, I still don't own a microphone.

pff, back in the days* we use cell phone and put people on speaker.

*summer 2006

Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:01 pm

Yeah, that should have been "LAN parties" not "LAN".

I use TS all the time in Eve. I understand the default codec is crap, but it ships with a couple of decent alternatives. Just raise the bandwidth.

Really, then, you/your friends are using Hamachi as a workaround of battle.net because Blizzard failed to provide an online mechanism that allows private games? I ask out of curiosity. I've never played WC3.

Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:02 pm

Hah, VLAN Dofus. It's local, sure, it's the same continent.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:32 pm

Ventrilo sucks ass. We tried using it for school and it totally sucked. Of course, we were trying to network together 40 people on the same Wireless LAN too...

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:38 pm

Dwindlehop wrote:Really, then, you/your friends are using Hamachi as a workaround of battle.net because Blizzard failed to provide an online mechanism that allows private games? I ask out of curiosity. I've never played WC3.

I didn't ask, so I don't know. I do know the friend I talked with owns it though. As for never playing WC3, you have my condolences.

quantus wrote:Ventrilo sucks ass.

Indeed. I just brought it up since lots of FFXI groups seems to use an older version of it for communication. I think the free newer versions cap the number of users, unless you register it of course.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:48 am

Ah, remember the good old days of Rainbow Six and phone chains?

We were so young then...

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:00 am

When the Starcraft MMO comes out, we should all play it after at least 3 weeks