How to use Hamachi: tips for beginning gamers
In our time there are quite a few players left,who prefer single-player projects to multi-player battles. This is easy to explain, because it is much more interesting to measure your strength not with "artificial intelligence", but with a living opponent. Even more interesting if you know your opponents in real life.
Agree that to fight in a virtual battle withhis own friend is much more interesting than to engage in gunfire with those whom he has never seen. To fulfill your dream, you and your friends need to install a wonderful program "Hamachi" on their computers.
What is it and what is it for?
This wonderful application is designed forcreate a virtual local area network. In simple terms, it can create the same network that you could do in your childhood, connecting a pair of computers in the neighboring rooms. Only here they are located at least at different ends of the globe.
The advantages of this approach are notbecause you and your friends will easily play old games that do not support a connection over the Internet (in the years of their creation it was simply not distributed), but they can provide multiplayer through a standard local network.
So how to use Hamachi? You will find out about this after reading our article. Important! Download in advance and install the program in its latest version, as in every new release programmers find and correct errors that can cause "crashes" and "hangs". We remind you that every player must install the application.
Create a local network
After you have settled these questions, clickon the button "Create a network". Then select the menu item "Create a new network". First, come up with some kind of intelligible name (in Latin letters), and then enter any password, the length of which will be more than three characters.
Whether to make it reliable? Despite the fact that the Hamachi program is well protected, and to this day there was no information about hacking of such local networks, it is better to still be reinsured.
Enter your name and password, click the "Create" button. The program will mount a new local network, the name of which will appear in the window with a list of all available connections. All. More from you nothing is required, except how to communicate the name and password of the network to another player.
How to connect to the second participant?
He will have to enter the necessary data inthe corresponding field in the program. If the connection process is successful, then the IP address of the second connected player appears under the name of the network in the connection window.
Accordingly, before using"Hamachi" for Minecraft, your opponent will have to enter in the settings of the game that local network address, which you will see at home. As a rule, the connection speed allows you to dive comfortably into the virtual world, as the application's own protocol provides the possibility of a sufficiently high-quality connection in almost any environment.
How do you connect to an already created network?
And now consider how you connect to the network, which was created by your partner in the game. Again, click on the "Create a network" button, and then select "Login to an existing network".
Before this you need to contact the second player andlearn from him the name of the network and the password that he came up with for her. Enter the data in the appropriate fields, and then click the "Login" button. After that, you can start the game and enjoy the fight with a live opponent!
Some remarks
So, you can firmly be sure ofsuccess of the connection, if a large green dot appears next to the player's name. If this same point flashes, then the program tries to establish a connection.
In the event that the green connection indicatorsurrounded by a yellow halo, this indicates that there is data exchange between the two computers in the "local" network. When this indicator is all yellow, the program reports that the connection attempt failed.
When this happens, the application tries toto establish communication not directly, but through their own servers. If it succeeds, a blue arrow appears down at the user name. Unfortunately, in this case, even dreaming about a normal game is not worth it, since the response time and connections will be inexcusably large.
What can be the cause of connection problems?
Before playing through Hamachi, it does not hurtfamiliarize yourself with the settings of your firewall. We can not bring in the short article all the necessary information on the settings of all types of such programs (because of their multiplicity), but we can advise you to set up full permissions for Hamachi to use the Internet.
In addition, test your speedconnections on some third-party server. The provider can promise you 6 MB / s, but in fact it may turn out that the connection does not even reach 512 Kbps. Naturally, this speed is not enough even for a real local network, not to mention its imitation.
Secondly, once again make sure of identityversions of the program that you and your opponent use. Since the "Hamachi" program can be used with full comfort only under the condition of completely coinciding releases of the application, the difference in versions can be fatal because of some bugs that have not yet been "caught" by the developers.
