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Fishmonger:
I set up my router to allow VPN connections directly, not via that remote Hamachi service. This may or may not work. I do have a dual core router CPU but it isn't the fastest one on the planet. There are models that are allegedly much faster due to some custom chipsets that handle the encryption. Still, what we are doing isn't really high load, so I figure we should give it a shot. If Hamachi has a bandwith cap (highly likely as I never saw it above 10Mbps), we may actually do better with this solution.

Anyone who is interested in testing this with me, let me know in Teamspeak. I will need to email you instructions and a settings file, username and PW. We can actually do this in tandem with Hamachi, as the connections should be handled on my network as if you are a local client like my own gaming box, where I never run Hamachi. The server has been dishing out GRAW connections on Hamachi and locally simultaneously, so that should not be a problem.

I cannot test myself very easily unless I go to some coffee shop with my laptop and play from there. . I do not have GRAW in my office and that office isn't really my office any longer anyway.

I did test the connectivity from the office computer to my LAN with the settings I have configured and it works fine (e.g. I can try to open my router admin page from a computer that isn't in my house using the local network 192.168.0.1 IP for it, so that remote system clearly is "virtually" on my LAN. Just what we need to play GRAW. The connection will not allow you to use my Internet connection for web access (teamspeak), but that will use your normal connection. So far that also seems to work on my work box.

If possible, I want to ditch Hamachi before the end of August when they will bill me again for 12 months without warning or any prior info on how much the price is going up. Just because of the way they do this I want to dump the service. It is getting expensive, and it may also be the root problem of all our map loading crashes.

To make all this work on your end, you will need to install OpenVPN, which behaves a lot like hamachi, except you don't see other users connected. Downloads are here https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/ 

The program will be looking for a config file that I will provide, plus a username and password (can be saved) I will hand out via teamspeak. At this point I don't know if everyone can use the same user/pass combo, or if I have to create one for each user. There is a limit of 16 in the server config, but that should be enough for us. I am guessing more than one can connect using the same user and password.

So if you're a bit more on the tech savvy side and want to try this out (Mex, Mike? I recall you were interested in testing) let me know this weekend. I'll advertise this in TeamSpeak as well

Fishmonger:
One more thought on this - I am not sure if others can host games using this setup, but again, technically, it isn't any different from being on the same LAN, so as long as users connect to my VPN and one of them fires up their own server, the traffic would go through my router to go back out to players. Testing when we have more than one player set up to use this will be needed to see if we are going to depend on my server being up or not. I have my money on "everything will be the same" short of seeing other users in a list. Meanwhile, the logs on my router do track every connection and IP numbers of users connecting to the LAN.

HSantal:
I'm guessing that we will need the 64 bit MSI Installer?
I'll download and install this.

razamataz1234:
Hoping , Thats what i installed .

Fishmonger:
if you are on 32 bit XP you need 32 bit, Anything else, just use the 64 bit.

I installed this one

https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/OpenVPN-2.5-beta1-amd64.msi


The second one listed did not mention beta, so that may be the better choice for stability, but I really can't tell form the instructions. the last version there seems to be the one for most of us:

https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/openvpn-install-2.4.9-I601-Win10.exe

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