Grupenet

Hamachi is a program which lets you interact with friends through the internet on a virtual network. It’s main feature let’s you interact in ways on the internet which you normally only can do on a private LAN. For example, you should be able to play an older PC game that only supports LAN through the internet with friends.

You can create a private network of your own for free. If you’re friends are everywhere in the world, you can use Hamachi so it’s as if they’re right next to you on your local area network!

I think that this program’s great, but isn’t perfect yet. You can instant message on it to individuals, but you cannot have a chat room, or a lobby like in IRC. I sometimes experience problems when I use it with Vista, but it does the job on XP. These are simple updates that work on for their newer versions.

Nonetheless, this program can also be a major problem solver for some as well. Hamachi is freeware, but a paid premium version is also available.

This is a guest post by Charles Leclerc of soniccagedome.com