{"id":1720,"date":"2021-09-29T12:38:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T12:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:59:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:59:12","slug":"sygate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/sygate\/","title":{"rendered":"Sygate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sygate<\/b>, by SyberGen Networks ($40 for 3 users, $70 for 6 users), gets good reports for easy installation and good support of networked games. \u00a0 You can read this\u00a0InfoWorld review<\/b><\/a>\u00a0if you like.<\/p>\n

You can\u00a0download a free trial version<\/b><\/a>\u00a0that allows 100MB of data transfer before you have to purchase it.<\/p>\n

\nSybergen recently released\u00a0Version 3<\/b>\u00a0of Sygate, which has an improved “Sygate Manager” and improved installation program.\u00a0 The\u00a0Web site FAQ<\/b><\/a>\u00a0have also been improved, and includes more\u00a0information on how to use the “apprule.cfg” file<\/b><\/a>.\u00a0 This is the file that allows you to configure Sygate for applications that it doesn’t handle.<\/p>\n

Sygate will handle many applications that are “special” to other sharing methods, right “out-of-the-box”.\u00a0\u00a0 It also handles\u00a0triggered maps<\/b><\/a>,<\/b>\u00a0port ranges, and allows you to specify TCP or UDP protocols.<\/p>\n

Version 3.0 comes with a Client program that can be installed on your shared PCs.\u00a0 \u00a0 The Sygate 3.0 client aids troubleshooting and captures performance information for display in the Sygate Manager.<\/p>\n

Note that you don’t have to use the Sygate Client program!\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>However, the Client will properly configure your TCP\/IP properties for proper communication with the Sygate Server.\u00a0 So you can install it to configure your Client PC(s), then uninstall it, if you don’t want to configure the TCP\/IP properties yourself.\u00a0 If you’d rather set the TCP\/IP properties manually, use the\u00a0information below<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sygate 3.0 also supports “one-way” or “telco-return” cable modems (in addition to full-duplex or two-way cable modems), but usually only when they contain the telco modem as part of the cable modem.\u00a0 The\u00a0GI Surfboard 1100 and 1200<\/a><\/b>\u00a0are examples of “one-way” modems that will work with Sygate.\u00a0 The\u00a0Surfboard 1000<\/b>\u00a0is an example of one that won’t.<\/p>\n

The only downside to Sygate is that their\u00a0tech support is via email only.\u00a0<\/b><\/em>Some users report delays of many days when emailing support questions, and some report getting no answer at all.\u00a0 They’re working on improving this by continuing to update the Web site FAQ and hiring more staff.<\/p>\n

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NOTE!<\/b>\u00a0If you are running Sygate 3 and getting “out of memory” messages from Windows,\u00a0check this page<\/b><\/a>\u00a0for a fix.<\/p>\n

<\/b>Help for other Sygate problems can be found\u00a0here<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n

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Sygate, by SyberGen Networks ($40 for 3 users, $70 for 6 users), gets good reports for easy installation and good support of networked games. \u00a0 You can read this\u00a0InfoWorld review\u00a0if you like. You can\u00a0download a free trial version\u00a0that allows 100MB of data transfer before you have to purchase it. Sybergen recently released\u00a0Version 3\u00a0of Sygate, which has an improved “Sygate Manager” and improved installation program.\u00a0 The\u00a0Web site FAQ\u00a0have also been improved, and includes more\u00a0information on how to use the “apprule.cfg” file.\u00a0 This is the file that allows you to configure Sygate for applications that it doesn’t handle. Sygate will handle many <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}