COMODO EasyVPN

You always hear about good programs, why arent't here more negative reviews of these things? I guess it's hard to rip on a free program. You didn't pay for it, it didn't cost anything other than time to use it, why bad mouth it?

And why should I really? On the other hand, maybe there's ome hope that the creator fo the program will hear and may look into some of the issues that a user has had. This free program, EasyVPN (Free for personal use) is one that I've had issus with lately. So I'm removing it.

This program will create a "Virtual" VPN connection betwen two computers. Hey, you just said "Virtual Virtual Private Network, isn't that some sort of double negative style issue?" Maybe so, but that's the best term for it. Generally a "real" VPN involves two firewalls, or a firewall and a program. The point is, at some point is a piece of physical hardware that manages this thing. This is two pieces of software that communicate over a 3rd party's management.

I've used a few solutions similar to this, the problem is, they often don't quite serve the same need as efficiently. For example, I use Live Mesh for syncing files in real time between several machines. It's great for backing up as well. I use Sync Toy at hoem to make back ups of the "My Documents" folders on my PC to a secondary larger hard drive.

I picked up EasyVPN for one purpose. I wanted to sync my iTunes library between two PCs (work and home) using SyncToy. With EasyVPN, I could map shared folders between these two machines over the internet securely. The sync can be a bit slow since there's some delay in the folder scanning across the internet so I set it up to run in the middle of the night.

The problem is, for whatever reason, the connection seemed to break every night. I'd wake up and find that SyncToy was sitting on my desktop telling me that it had failed to run. Neither machine is set to go to sleep or anything since I strongly dislike "Sleep Mode" and "Standby Mode" so that's not part of the issue. IT's just a straight reset of some kind, every evening.

So I'm dumping it. I've used LogMeIn.com's Hamachi in the past and will probaly go back to using this since it works better anyway. I just was hoping for a slightly more efficient solution. Why iTunes doesn't let you do this on it's own (or just allow you to sync an iPod to more than one library) is beyond my comprehension. Part of that annoying "Apple Control" issue.