Virtual Private Networks

***Cosmonautical*** · 01-16-2008, 01:04 AM

I'm trying to use Hamachi to setup a VPN with my brother, so we can play SC without connecting to the battle.net servers. It's going pretty well, but I have just found out that the newest versions (1.0.2.x) have issues with many games, and I've got to downgrade to 1.0.1.5

Anyone else try to setup a VPN? They're a pain if you're inexperienced with networking like I am, but very cool.

***Ace Mercury*** · 01-16-2008, 08:49 AM

My friends set one up so we could play a few games of Warcraft III. It was OpenVPN, and my friend's a IT guru, so it wasn't too bad. I think my ISP (Rogers, boo) is throttling VPN speeds though, because people have been using it for completely legitimate bittorrents.

***Cosmonautical*** · 01-17-2008, 03:03 AM

Of course they have. It's not the ISP's responsibility to guard software copyrights, anyway.

01-16-2008, 01:04 AM	#1
*Cosmonautical* Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I rub my tilde all over your asterisk Gender: Posts: 28,100 Thanks: 2,151 Thanked 5,338 Times in 2,433 Posts	Virtual Private Networks I'm trying to use Hamachi to setup a VPN with my brother, so we can play SC without connecting to the battle.net servers. It's going pretty well, but I have just found out that the newest versions (1.0.2.x) have issues with many games, and I've got to downgrade to 1.0.1.5 Anyone else try to setup a VPN? They're a pain if you're inexperienced with networking like I am, but very cool.

01-16-2008, 08:49 AM	#2
*Ace Mercury* Marshmallow Knight ☆ Supermod Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Southern Ontario Gender: Posts: 23,274 Thanks: 568 Thanked 3,297 Times in 1,582 Posts Blog Entries: 1	My friends set one up so we could play a few games of Warcraft III. It was OpenVPN, and my friend's a IT guru, so it wasn't too bad. I think my ISP (Rogers, boo) is throttling VPN speeds though, because people have been using it for completely legitimate bittorrents.

01-17-2008, 03:03 AM	#3
*Cosmonautical* Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I rub my tilde all over your asterisk Gender: Posts: 28,100 Thanks: 2,151 Thanked 5,338 Times in 2,433 Posts	Of course they have. It's not the ISP's responsibility to guard software copyrights, anyway.