http://www.hamachi.cc/

maybe try this

it turns the internet into a lan between computers looks very cool

That looks pretty cool! :)

reminds me of duke nukem modem play :p

Pretty awesome program, but as of yet it doesn't work for any Steam servers

/cue steam hatewagon

Yoink! i'm sure this little beauty will come in handy in the future.

Sounds cool - there is a similar thing built into The Arena that lets you do stuff like that (ie, for supported games you it creates a pseudo-VPN between users so you can play as if you are on LAN). The biggest advantage there though is that all the traffic is then routed via a GameArena server - resulting in essentially free traffic for supported p2p games (like C&C Generals, for example).

yeah trog i was impressed when I saw that was part of the cogs spec. cheers to whoever wrote that bit, was it nathan?

there's been a few programs that do this for a while now. a much more configurable one is a program called GIT. been around for ages.

pitty you need to be admin to install this =( no games at work

s*** i didnt realise cogs had vpn through gamearena, very nice

damn nice find Superform

so it's pretty much just vpn but uses one of their servers to do all the setup work instead of you having to have a vpn server & configure it? Sounds quite the noob friendly application, what happens if their servers go down though?

It's a simple vpn packaged into a messenger program, I've been using it for a bit now. Of course it won't work for steam as it's by definition a vPn (although with a bit of mucking around you can get steam going), but starting steam in offline mode and playing through that is fine.

I've started using openvpn, which is quite a bit more configurable and secure. Only reason to use hamachi now is for people with no idea on vpn's, and it's relatively simple setup.

I can't install anything on my computer at work..... so that doesn't really help

its useless if you're behind a firewall, unless you know the net admins and can ask them to open or forward some ports for you. but then, if they were willing to do that, you could probably con them into just opening the ports for the game you want to play. So i can't say its particularly useful for anything workwise.