Qusetion On License

[SniperDan]

Greetings;
Well I have a problem understanding the licensing policy of Wingate. What does concurrent users actually mean. For eg. WG with a 50 concurrent user license. Does that mean that 50 computers in a LAN can connect to the internet through the wingate server at the same time??
I had a look thru in the forum and found one Mr Rascal of the qbik staff saying that "When you activate a license, it is for a single Gateway" . http://forums.qbik.com/viewtopic.php?t=3031 Well I plan to use wingate to merge 3 ADSL connections each with a gate way of its own. So will I be needing 3 licenses for the three gateways:-( (uh may be stupid question)[/ ...that said here comes next said by the same qbik staff person http://forums.qbik.com/viewtopic.php?t= ... ce+license where its said that some programs like mesenger and weather update programs can sonsume license counts . Well the users on my LAN (of diff nationality since we are foreigners in a foreign country)mostly always has thier Instant messengers on and that too diff ones like MSN , Yahoo, Odigo,ICQ and even IM's which one have never heard of internationally and ofcourse the waether update prg since that way we can update abt the weather here instead on listening to the foreign language news here on TV . I am confused abt diff programs using up the license counts instead of the computer connected to the WG server and in the end I am back to square one with no idea how the licensing policy works

Hope my question is correctly understood.
Do hope for a reply
Regards
Dan boy

[Pascal]

Pascal. (That Rascal just made Larry's day ... )

Gateway as in point a single WinGate 'gateway'. If your WinGate uses 1, 2, 3 or 5 ADSL connections, that doesn't matter. You only need one WinGate, thus one license. So, one license per WinGate installation. You cannot re-use a license on another computer.

What does concurrent users actually mean. For eg. WG with a 50 concurrent user license. Does that mean that 50 computers in a LAN can connect to the internet through the wingate server at the same time??

Correct. A 50 user license means that 50 computers can access the internet at the same time. If one is switched off, or closes all Internet applications, another computer can go on. In some scenarios it is possible to have a 100 computers on your network, but only 50 accessing the internet at the same time.

The point with Instant Messengers, etc. was that people sometimes forget about them. They frequently have either an established connection OR a regular polling mechanism; which means that those computers will generally keep a license for that user constantly. (I.e. not only when the user is actively using the internet)

Does that make a bit more sense?

[SniperDan]

Greeings;
My sincere apologies for that typo error of mine. and thank you very much for the reply
Best wishes
Dan

[Pascal]

No problem on the typo, everybody loved it. (Just an automatic correction)

Just made my day!
hahahahahahaha
I think I just pulled a muscle.

Does that help though? Is everything clear with licenses?

[SniperDan]

Greetings;
yes the doubt is all clear abt. the license. Thank once again for the prompt response

Regards
Dan Boy