How to use Hamachi: tips for beginning gamers

In our time there are quite a few players 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 lively opponent. Even more interesting if you know your opponents in real life.

Agree that fighting in a virtual battle with your own friend is much more interesting than getting into a shootout with those who have never been 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 to create 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.

You can not talk about the advantages of this approach, because you and your friends will easily play old games that do not support Internet connection (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 each 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

Before using Hamachi, it is necessary to agree in advance about who exactly creates the network. All other users will connect to it.

After you have settled these questions, click on the "Create Network" button. Then select the menu item "Create a new network". First, think up some sort of clear and readable name (in Latin letters), and then enter any password that is longer than three characters long.

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 be safe.

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 in the appropriate 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 game settings 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, since 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 established network?

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 that, you need to contact the second player and find out 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 run the game and enjoy a duel with a live opponent!

Some remarks

Since using Hamachi is quite simple, many inexperienced players make a lot of mistakes without reading even the most basic instructions. As a result - the lack of connection and a mass of spoiled nerves. To prevent this from happening to you, we advise reading some of our tips that will make the game more enjoyable and effective.

So, you can firmly be sure of the success 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 indicator is surrounded 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 to establish a connection not directly, but through its own servers. If it succeeds, a blue arrow appears down at the user name . Unfortunately, in this case, even dreaming of 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 hurt to get acquainted 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.

If you understand something about setting up your firewall, we recommend that you open ports 12975 and 32976. They are used to run the application, so unlocking them ensures its functionality. In short, before using "Hamachi", we strongly recommend that you understand the settings of your security software! In the future, there will be fewer problems.

In addition, test the speed of your connection on some third-party server. A 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 the identity of the versions of the program that is used by you and your opponent. Since it is possible to use the Hamachi program 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.