I never said they were. However, their handling of this situation leaves much to be desired. If they had given a month's notice and offered a reasonable pricing plan then I think they wouldn't have annoyed as many as they have by doing what they've done now. I have 5 computers that I occasionally access. Paying out over £100 per year just for that facility makes no sense whatsoever. Add to that my value as someone that uses their other products, and has recommended them to a lot of people that I deal with, it makes this all the more annoying for me.
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I never said they were. However, their handling of this situation leaves much to be desired. If they had given a month's notice and offered a reasonable pricing plan then I think they wouldn't have annoyed as many as they have by doing what they've done now. I have 5 computers that I occasionally access. Paying out over £100 per year just for that facility makes no sense whatsoever. Add to that my value as someone that uses their other products, and has recommended them to a lot of people that I deal with, it makes this all the more annoying for me.
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Yep I would pay OR move to another service. They don't have a gun to your head they are simply saying if you want to use our service again then we are now a paid service if not you must move somewhere else.
It's business.
PS I am in your shoes...... I do run this on a free service and now I'm seeking alternatives. I already have my solution what about you?
Did you not read my post before you posted up your comment of "Too late, it's either pay or move to another service."? I said in there that I've switched to TeamViewer.
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You never know... other free remote services might become paid just to make a little money for their company.... watch this space 
Cool story.
Ah, you've just confirmed that you're one of those people. Go and troll elsewhere please.
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What's wrong with the standard Remote Desktop? Why the need for Logmein and Teamviewer?
To do it over the internet without setting up a VPN.
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I'm not trolling I was stating that now there is nothing else you can do apart from move services or pay.
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Most people use these services to support family and friends, without needing to configure their router to forward TCP 3389 to the PC in question (and they may have more than one they want supporting on!)
Logmein proxies these connections via outbound connections initiated from the targets end to the Logmein servers, so no router config is necessary.
Think I might look into Remote Assistance instead, think it is better than it was.
This for me. Work have paid for me to have logmein central for quite a while now, as well as the app so I can remote over iphone 3g.But if your a LogMeIn Central customer, nothing to worry about..
Great product, its a shame its happened so quickly but I will continue to be a user and all but one of my computers I have access to are using the free client.
Discovered this when I was at work, was helping a guy out with an email problem and noticed LogMeIn and automatically installed its new client for paying customers (which has a very poor UI at the moment). We're sticking with Central until the non-web based client doesn't suck so much.
You could manage hundreds of machines from your login and didn't need to know the IP address to connect (or have to use DNS etc). Quite handy tool really.
Quick example pulled from Google image search
Annoyed, only 2 months back I decided to support them a bit and paid for Ignition on Android (could have got a cracked version but I have been a happy user of free for many years and wanted to do the right thing) now I have to shell out $50 a year for a whole bunch of features I don't need. 
At least I get 6 months free pro for being a long time user, but I doubt I'll stick around after that.
At least I get 6 months free pro for being a long time user, but I doubt I'll stick around after that.
I've been a long term user of LMI and Teamviewer, and have to admit I normally use LMI over Teamviewer. The extra features given in LMI pro don't really warrant paying for the service. As someone suggested above, if they did the basic level of service for $5/$10 per device per year then I think more would be inclined to take up the offer. I almost purchased the app for android as well, glad I didn't as that would have been a waste.