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Connectify Hotspot PRO & Dispatch PRO Bundle

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One of our favorite things to do at BDJ is to bring you fresh, exciting software from awesome, forward-thinking developers.

Connectify is just that kind of company. I mean, check out the two products that they're bundling together for todays promotion!

Hotspot... well, let's just say that Hotspot would've come in real handy the last time I was stuck at JFK with a laptop, iPad, iPhone, girlfriend's laptop, and girlfriend's Android. At JFK you'd have to pay that painfully exorbitant airport wifi access fee for each and every device, right?

No longer!

Just like it's name, Hotspot literally turns your computer into a wireless hub to which you can connect all of your devices!

Tell me you haven't wished somebody would invent this...

And it's not just good for travel. Hotspot can also serve as your primary wireless router, and even as a wifi extender. A click or two, and you'll be getting a strong signal in the basement, the garage, or any of those bad service areas in your home.

Dispatch, the second half of today's bundle, combines available free hotspot and open wifi networks and allows you to use them simultaneously for super-fast connections. Great for urban areas!

And if you live in the country or an area with slow or unreliable internet service, Dispatch can combine it with your phones tethered 3G or 4G connection for faster, more dependable internet access.

But really, with Dispatch on your PC you'll always be able to combine available networks for faster access. Coffee shop internet acting a little pokey? Smooth it out by allowing Dispatch to combine their limp connection with your smartphone's 4G and get back to work, fast.

And Dispatch even comes in handy if you have a single connection. It's kind of like an internet connection toolkit. It'll alert you when something is wrong with your Wi-Fi or DNS and even offers advanced bandwidth and latency monitoring stats!

Best of all, Connectify has designed Dispatch and Hotspot to communicate and cooperate! That super-fast Dispatch connection you're cruising on? Share it with all your Hotspot-connected devices!

Review Written by Derek Lee

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William Tattors Pretty exciting product. Any plans for android app? I am assuming by reviewing your you tube videos that it is an actively developed product.

Nov 13 2013 at 6:55am Copy Link

Nico Westerdale Connectify will work on Windows 8.1. All Win 8 apps run on Win 8.1.

BitsDuJour Admin - Nov 13 2013 at 8:06am Copy Link

Nico Westerdale Here's a page for details on XP/Vista installers:
http://www.connectify.me/...r-xp-vista

BitsDuJour Admin - Nov 13 2013 at 8:07am Copy Link

Raj Haldar Alex from Connectify here. Yes, William, Connectify is actively developed, we put out a new release (7.1) just last week with some improvements for use on Windows 8.1. This special is on LIFETIME licenses, too, so anyone who buys now, will get every update that we ever put out from now on.

At this point, Connectify is just for Windows (well the clients that connect to your hotspot can be Android, or iOS or pretty much anything else that supports Wi-Fi).

Connectify - Nov 13 2013 at 8:41am Copy Link

mix624 I dont understand ? How can I use my home stationary PC with my fibre broadband connection ? Confused...

When I use my WIFI I always get multiple trojan horse attenmpts. So I have turned off my WIFI 100% (I have D-link DIR-645, really good wifi signal but cant use it as explained).

Nov 13 2013 at 9:15am Copy Link

Petr I like what you describe. But, I am cautious installing such software, not wanting to risk the stability of my Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 machines.

If I buy this and need to uninstall your software, does my network stack and Windows return to a known-good (pre-install) state? I want to know the uninstaller can restore my system to a previous state, if I find issues with your software? I have production software operating on my systems so I always mitigate risk.

Also, can you comment if your software will work if installed on a Virtual Machine (VMware Guest machine)? Thank you.

Peter

Nov 13 2013 at 10:20am Copy Link

Edward Smith I have the same question/concern as Peter . . .

Nov 13 2013 at 11:26am Copy Link

Petr If I have two wired connections in my home office, from two different ISPs, can I use your product to automatically fail-over to the other connection if one connection goes down?

I have a trading platform, for trading stocks, that is up 24 hrs per day, connected to two data providers with real-time stock prices. My concern with the above described scenario, if my main wired Internet connection goes down, my data providers would see a different ip address and may not reconnect, or the fail-over to the backup ISP would not be seamless. Can you please comment if your products will help me? Or, if there are limitations or interruptions in my Internet connectivity, please describe. Thanks.

Nov 13 2013 at 11:28am Copy Link

Raj Haldar mix624: If I understand your setup correctly you: Plug the fiber internet into the PC. Run Connectify Hotspot on that PC, and set "Internet to Share" to the fiber connection, and set a password for your hotspot. Now all your other devices (Android, iOS, other PCs, etc.) can get on your new Wi-Fi hotspot once you enter that password. The network is secured with WPA2 encryption, so no one else can use your network unless they have that password. So crooks and hackers won't be able to jump onto your network.

Connectify - Nov 13 2013 at 12:57pm Copy Link

Raj Haldar Petr, Yes Connectify has an effective uninstaller. You can install Hotspot on a virtual machine, but it can only use network cards that the virtual machine can control. VM's can't control the Wi-Fi card that is built into your PC. Sometimes you can "hand off" a USB Wi-Fi card to a VM, in which case it should work... but this is getting complicated.

Connectify - Nov 13 2013 at 12:58pm Copy Link

Raj Haldar Petr (Second question): The Connectify Dispatch portion of the product lets you load balance between the two Internet connections. In Hotspot, you set "Internet to Share" to Dispatch and it will load balance between them. Every time a program makes a new socket (connection) it puts it on the best Internet connection (based on bandwidth, latency, reliability and how busy it is). For encrypted protocols like HTTPS, Dispatch by default keeps all the sockets together on the same network interface, so the IP won't normally change.

If one of your networks fails, Dispatch will notice, and route all new connections over the other interface.

But yes, in case one of your networks fails. your IP address will then change after the automatic failover.

Hope that helps.

Connectify - Nov 13 2013 at 12:59pm Copy Link

Richard Tauriello Can Dispatch use a WEP/WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi connection? A connection that requires logging into a webpage in order to access the Internet? A connection that can only access the Internet via an HTTP proxy server?

Nov 13 2013 at 5:03pm Copy Link

Tony W I assume hotspot works also if a laptop utilizes its own mobile broadband for internet access (say a built in mobile card thing)? ie it doesn't only have to connect to either wifi or ethernet in order to become a hotspot dispatch..right? And Dispatch will know how to handle that too? thanks.

Nov 13 2013 at 9:35pm Copy Link

John H Is this illegal?

Nov 13 2013 at 9:36pm Copy Link

Nico Westerdale Great News! Connectify has agreed to extend this deal for another day - Enjoy!

BitsDuJour Admin - Nov 14 2013 at 12:11am Copy Link

Jon Spain There are very bad service reviews at Amazon (see below). Can Alex comment upon that and about John H's legality question, please?

http://www.amazon.com/Con...Descending

Nov 14 2013 at 12:24am Copy Link

Pim Joosten Hello Raj,

I am considering purchasing this. I do however have 2 questions.

1. If I use Connectify Hotspot as a wireless to wired-ethernet bridge for connecting my network printer to the network is it possible to approach the printer from another computer that is connected to the local wireless network? I understand form your website that the computer running Connectify Hotspot issues IP addresses in a different range, because it functions as a router. However, can I do something with port forwarding in Hotspot, so that I can use the network printer in my entire network?

2. I always use a VPN when connecting to a (public) hotspot. I do not know very much about the technical aspects of a VPN, but if I use Connectify Dispatch, will the VPN traffic be spread over the combined internet connections or is this impossible because a VPN only uses one socket? I did read this page (http://community.connecti...h_dispatch). Does it mean that a VPN via Dispatch is never possible?

Also, I am curious about your response to the negative reviews of Connectify's support on Amazon, as indicated by Jon Spain. It is in contrast with what I can observe on your forum.

Lastly, to confirm your reply to Petr about installing Connectify Hotspot in a VM and then "handing off" a USB Wifi adapter, I have done so yesterday with some success. After starting the hotspot my original Wifi connection occasionally dropped from the networking center. Then, of course, the hotspot is lost also. It may have to do with my host computer not being powerful enough to run a Windows 7 VM. I was merely using the VM for testing Connectify, as I am still using Vista on my computer (migration to Windows 7 will happen sometime in the future.

Thanks in advance for your reply.

Nov 14 2013 at 2:00am Copy Link

Mike B Why would this be illegal?

Using the Hotspot software might possibly violate the terms of service for some data plans, but that depends on the details of the data plan you have. For example, some data plans have terms of service that don't let you stream videos; that doesn't make watching things on youtube against the law.

I don't think that Dispatch would even violate any TOS agreement.

Nov 14 2013 at 11:45am Copy Link

Robb I No response to the Amazon reviews question? There aren't that many reviews listed and are possibly easily explained, but silence is not golden here. This product sounds great and this is a good deal. I want to try it but need to have some comfort level that you stand behind the product and offer some support; Knowledge Base, extensive FAQs, a manual, phone support, anything?

Nov 14 2013 at 8:34pm Copy Link

Alexander Gizis Jon,
I would give selling software through Amazon a 0 star review. It was a terrible experience for us. Amazon would not tell us who purchased the software, would not give us contact info for these people, we never got emails from these people who said that they had tried to contact us... just awful. If this people really bought, they were probably contacting Amazon and getting ignored. I don't know. The first line of support for us is the Connectify Community at http:/community.connectify.me/ As you can see, Mon-Fri we always get back to everyone within a day. And we do frequent releases to fix problems that people find.

Nov 14 2013 at 9:33pm Copy Link

Pim Joosten Thanks Alexander for your replies. I have purchased a copy and am looking forward to using your program!

Hopefully this idea (http://community.connecti...ridge_mode) for a bridging mode will be implemented in the near future. I think that will solve my question about the network printer. Unfortunately my printer is not supported by Google Cloud Printer, but thanks for the suggestion!

Nov 14 2013 at 11:26pm Copy Link

Jon Spain Alex

By the time an answer was posted, admittedly within your normal day, it was too late. To be honest, I'm surprised that BdJ didn't respond because people here are used to that luxury. Had I seen your post earlier, then I would have bought it but I guess it's too late for a discount.

Nov 15 2013 at 12:21am Copy Link

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Nov 15 2013 at 1:30am Copy Link

Robb I I took a leap of faith and purchased the bundle before seeing your post Alexander, but I thank you for your response. It was reasonable and gave the assurance I was seeking. Looking forward to deploying.

Nov 15 2013 at 7:40am Copy Link

André User I feel terribly cheated buying their max deal on their website as this did not include dispatch, they would not refound and they refused to sell or give me a dispatch code.

May 2 2015 at 11:09am Copy Link

Please note that all comments for this promotion will be screened before posting. It's nothing personal, just a step we have to take because of a few bad apples last time around.