Wingate Developement....

[adriaan]

Hi,

There has been no major updates to Wingate, since 6.0, which has been released more than 1 year ago. Yes, there as been the occasional bug fixes, but nothing new (like 5 to 6).

Is Wingate still actively being developed, or are you just doing bug fixes??

Regards,
Adriaan

[genie]

Yes, Wingate is being actively developed - we have big plans for the future version but we also have to keep up with less dramatic changes that Wingate undergoes.

[adriaan]

Thanks!!

[pgr]

I hope your efforts are also directed at simple things like the Wingate Client. I'd hate to see an impressive list of improvements with acronyms that only network people understand and find the basic nuisances of Wingate Client still linger....

Things like:

- showing the user how much usage quota is left;
- allowing the user to change password;
- a simple way to release current wingate connection and log in again... so often some process (like antivirus) starts using wingate with some log in that does not work, and then we're left to killing processes until we can get back the dialog box to log in to Wingate. We need a button "Log in now".
- an easy way of knowing which process is keeping, or requesting a Wingate connection

This would make life with Wingate so much easier. I find the typical end-user runs into quite a lot of problems with Wingate, because of the above problems.

I'm glad you're working on a new version... thanks.

[genie]

Hi, Pgr

There is a small app called QbikAuth - it is not Wingate Client-related but rather used to authenticate users and allow them to change their passwords if they have rights to do that - it sits in the tray.

[pgr]

Hi, Pgr

There is a small app called QbikAuth - it is not Wingate Client-related but rather used to authenticate users and allow them to change their passwords if they have rights to do that - it sits in the tray.

I see it doesn't come with Wingate installation... I found the link to it anyway, and it seems to help.

Are there any 'magic tools' that I should know of?

Thanks!

[genie]

It should be available for download but I don't have the link at the moment - can send it to you via email if you want.

[pgr]

It should be available for download but I don't have the link at the moment - can send it to you via email if you want.

I didn't make myself clear... I <i>have</i> the link and I 've downloaded the tool. I was just wandering if there are more.

[adrien]

Hi

there aren't any other tools that I know of. Not yet anyway!

Regards

Adrien

[pgr]

After a few days fo playing around with Qbikauth, I guess it doesn't really solve most of the problems I mentioned above.

With the start of the school year I'm starting to introduce a few new people to using Wingate client, and it's reminding me how inconvenient Wingate sometimes is - how we get used to many usage problems that should never be there in the first place...

Problem no.1 on the list is this: you log in to your computer; some stupid process (like an antivirus, alg.exe, whatever) starts trying to use the net and locks Wingate, never giving you the chance to type in your username/password. That process doesn't get net access, and neither does any other process. The only chance you have is opening task manager, and shooting out processes randomly...

Why does this happen?

Will this be solved in the next version or what?