Hamachi Question

ringo747

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ringo747

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I am off to the USA soon and want to keep up to date with the cricket on Sports Extra. As this is UK based it won't work in the states.

I read about Hamachi VPN and have it installed on a number of machines but not sure how it really works.

How do I actually go about getting things working? Do I just connect my hamachi client then open the stream in a browser as usual? Do I need one machine powered on in the UK?

If I have all my machines connected to the VPN does my laptop client think I am still in UK? Really haven't got a clue!
 
Can't answer myself but I would Also like to know this, including what firewall rules need to be put in place inbound/outbound as google has failed me, some people are saying abc, some people saying xyz
 
I tried installing this on all my machines and connected them all up. I vpn'd into a work network which has a location in France. I tried iPlayer expecting it to work but I got the outside of UK message.

I imagined that when I was connected to my Hamachi network that it would somehow know that I am UK based. I guess it doesn't do this or else I am missing another step! Probably am to be honest as I know nothing about this.
 
The web browser will just try and directly connect to the website in question
it wont try to tunnel thru the hamachi network

What you need to do is install a web proxy server a machine that is in the uk
you then config your browser to use a proxy and use the UK PC's hamachi addresss
as the proxy server , your browser should tunnel thru hamachi to the proxy and then
the proxy should connect you to the UK site, you should appear to be in the uk.
 
There are some free proxies around but might be worth just paying a little for one, for a month or however long needed.
 
I think the easiest and fastest way would be to buy a vpn service. Plenty of websites offer vpn's with uk ip addresses. I used these guys for a month http://www.hideipvpn.com/
The 55% off code means it only cost about £2.50 for the month.
 
With that you would create a dial up VPN connection in Windows, so your web browser connects via it, so the web page thinks your in another country.

Hamachi just allows a virtual (secure) LAN, so isn't related to Internet browsing without some fiddling.
 
Must check that out.

I am currently connected to the internet in work using a vodafone dongle and tried connecting to my hamachi network. It has a red dot with a label saying 'relayed tunnel, blocked'.

I wonder does mobile broadband providers block this kind of thing?
 
ringo747 said:
Sorry for sounding dumb but what is the difference between buying a VPN service and using Hamachi free?
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Hamachi is just a virtual network, it is not set up to relay any internet traffic. If you did manage to get it to relay traffic you would also be limited by the upload speed of what you are connected to, if thats a home connection it is likely to be fairly slow. If you get a premium vpn service you connect to a server with a high speed connection which is set up properly to tunnel your traffic. The vpn client is also built into windows so is easy and quick to set up. For the price I don't think its even worth the effort to try set something up yourself.

I have ended up using vpn's a fair bit recently to get around traffic management. The hideip one is the cheapest I have found using the discount code, I made a new account and used the code again for the 2nd month I needed it :D
 
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