A vote for Winproxy
From John's Closet
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>>And here's a contribution from William J. Price, a gentleman who clearly knows what he likes, and WinGate isn't it!
FYI
I have used both Wingate (for two years) & Winproxy (this year). Winproxy is dirt cheap, its documentation and Web site support are
current, its setup is straightforward under both Win. 95 and Win. NT 4.0 and its tech support is reasonably responsive. It is somewhat
difficult to set up to run as an NT service. However, since it runs cleanly as an NT "app" that has proved to be a minor issue. I have
done four installations since Jan. 98 ( 3 NT, 1 Win. 95). All took less than 20 minutes for the proxy server and 5 minutes per client
(assuming the browser is already installed.) All four installations have run for several months without a hitch. Read the documentation,
follow directions and the product works.
In contrast, Wingate (resold & supported by Deerfield Communications Company, deerfield.com) costs the same or more than
Winproxy, Wingate's documentation and Web site support are generally out of date, Wingate is *very* *very* complex to set up,
Wingate's current version has some serious reliability problems under NT 4.0, and its tech support appears to be generally
unresponsive. A careful review of the many, many comments re: the above on the "Wingate Open Discussion Forum" at the Deerfield
site is instructive.
Of three Wingate installs done over the past two years, and after dozens and dozens of support hours on each, I replaced two
installations with Winproxy and reloaded an old but solid Version 1.3 (current version is 2.1) on the third.
William P. Price, Jr.
William Price Consultants
wprice@swbell.net << |
