WinProxy 3.0 (3-user)

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces
• ASIN: B00002S75R
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 1, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #28,664 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Wired households and small-business owners will love this WinProxy 3.0 package. The sleek, easily installed software will let you plug several PCs into the same (presumably, although not necessarily, high-speed) Internet connection.

By far, the hardest part of using WinProxy 3.0 is setting up the LAN, which you have to take care of separately and beforehand; after that's behind you, load up the surprisingly small program (about 25 MB), configure it, and start browsing. As a special blessing to administrators, Ositis Software has made WinProxy 3.0 nearly transparent to most users. The user or administrator will occasionally have to reconfigure software, but the clear, abundant documentation makes that task fairly simple.

WinProxy 3.0 provides a six-month subscription to Trend Micro's antivirus updates and Smart Computing's filtering definitions, so that you don't have to worry about sneaky attachments or unauthorized browsing. In fact, in addition to blacklisting, admins can create "whitelists" that restrict browsing to a prescribed set of sites, useful for schools or homes with children. With the power of a proxy server to reduce bandwidth use and the ease of use of a NAT server, WinProxy is unbeatable for most small networks. --Rob Lightner

--This review refers to the 5-user version.

Amazon.com Product Description

WinProxy 3.0 allows users to connect multiple computers on a network to the Internet through a single point and use their existing service provider. WinProxy delivers a wide array of advanced features in an easy-to-use package. You'll find features such as a built-in firewall, centralized antivirus protection, and Web-site filtering and user privileges.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous product - a must buy, June 20, 2000

By	C. James (CA, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Very easy to install with a ton of documentation for both WinProxy and how to build a LAN. It was the perfect product for getting all the computers in my home online and worked great with my cable modem. It is a shame that one person's inability to configure it (it pretty much self-configures on install and walks you through it with a quick start guide) slants the rating. Generally, I have found that any problems I had were a result of my own misconfiguration of my LAN, not due to the product.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great, August 14, 2000

By A Customer

I am a Unix guy with a distaste for (and willful ignorance of) Windows. I found this product easy to install (Windows NT 4.0) and it works great. Minor installation glitches were due to configuration of my other machines. Easily added custom port mapping to one of my internal machines! Have not yet been forced to look at manual or help. Recently added another machine to the network with only one minor weirdness (resolved). Clients on LAN include Mac OS X Server (Unix) and NT. Expect that planned addition of MacOS 8 client will be equally problem free.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Winproxy does not perform as advertised., May 11, 2000

By A Customer

Ositis claims that WinProxy is easy to install but I did not find this to be true. I tried two separate scenarios. The first was a small LAN consisting of a server and two clients. I could not get the clients to connect to the internet. I sent an email to Ositis (No Customer service telephone number provided), but received no response.

The second installation was on my home computer where I had hoped to set up a personal firewall. But I never did get the software to install correctly. Again I sent an email to Ositis but did not get a reply.

The software has a 30-day satisfaction guarantee. I was able to contact them through amazon.com and they did honor their guarantee.

My advise is to find another modem sharing program.