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Multi-State Family Networking?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the would-that-then-make-it-a-FWAN dept.

Valley Redneck asks: "The last few members of my extended family just entered the 20th century and went to broadband. Now that we're all on-line with small home LANs in place, we'd like to start sharing stuff via a VPN. The only problem is I'm the only marginally tech savvy one in the bunch, and I'd rather not have to hop a plane to configure everyone's box. Any recommendations for a broadband router that supports VPN to use on the mother-ship network that will play nice with all versions of Windows XP SP 2 (Pro, Home and Media Center) and its VPN client?"

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  1. Do it in software by Cyberglich · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hardware can be trickey use software Hamachi is a very easy to use very powerfull very secure and it supports windows mac and linux. www.hamachi.cc

  2. hamachi by schwal · · Score: 4, Informative

    just install, and give em a password to your network. even has chat.

    --
    -schwal "Hanging is too good for punners, they should be drawn and quoted"
  3. Froget VPN - Go Web by pjay_dml · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you're the only one with technical expertise, then forget VPN completely, and think about a web based solution. Just set up a site, that only family members have access to, and provide them with web apps that fulfill your "sharing needs" (e.g. Galleria for displaying and sharing photos).

    Though, no matter what you will do, I can garentee you "support-headaches", I know from experience ...