Sad day: LogMeIn free is about to die

cyberguypr

Logged in and saw this:

Soon LogMeIn Free will no longer be available.

To continue using remote access, you’ll need to purchase an account subscription of LogMeIn Pro. As a loyal user, you’re entitled to discounted introductory pricing, with packages starting at $49/year for two computers.* Your new account includes our signature remote access with premium features like remote printing, file transfer and cloud data access, plus desktop and mobile apps to improve your experience.

Please note: If you do not take action, the Free computers highlighted in your account will become inaccessible on 1/28/2014. Only 7 days left!

Starting at $49/year (50% off regular price)

*Introductory prices apply only to the first year of your subscription.

Was this announced somewhere? Did I miss it?

Let's take a minute of silence for the departed.

MCITBound

Meh... Teamviewer FTW!!!

demonfurbie

yea ive switched to teamviewer from vnc/dydns and havent looked back

takes a few extra steps on linux but it works just as well with out needing to open ports on firewalls

J_86

They posted it on their blog today: Changes to LogMeIn Free

I think it's bad move. I would bet Teamviewer is going to see a surge in usage of their free version.

N2IT

I received that email today. I really liked using it, that's a shame.

VAHokie56

yeap switched 2 years ago...logmein is dead to me!

MosGuy

Only used Logmein a few times, then started using Teamviewer. Not a huge loss, those loyal to Logmein will subscribe otherwise teamviewer will likely pick up slack from the free version.

phoeneous

Hope this doesnt affect join.me because I use it quite a bit.

proph21

I just installed this last week to troubleshoot my dads comp from here ! Time for Teamviewer

techwizard

its only fitting a piece of software that good would end up going the "pay to use" route. I use(d) LMI for my own personal use and for several troubleshooting jobs, its very nice to have. What I dont like about this whole deal is the amount of warning LMI/Himachi has given its users for the "free" ride. Essentially no notice. I got the email today, and they terminate the "free" version today as well (you have 7 days to decide if you want to go for the pay to use, which they have been nice enough to give a discount to those who were already using it, but its not enough to get me to pay $49/yr/2 computers)

Not gonna do that. Thankfully there are other options out there. Looks like I will be joining the Teamviewer club as well.

What are the other options? Just for the sake of discussion...

SteveLord

LogMeIn was slow as hell compared to Teamviewer. I also never needed Pro for any reason that it was worth the money. There are free/quick workarounds to not having remote printing.

datacomboss

I've used both for our non-SLA customers for years and we've had to login via join.me many times just to reboot the TeamViewer service. It is slower but in my opinion, logmein is more reliable.

TheNewITGuy

I've always enjoyed ammyy Ammyy Admin - Free Zero-Config Remote Desktop Software, Remote Desktop Connection and Remote Access Software

W Stewart

I used them for a minute on my wife's windows desktop but I haven't used it in awhile. You won't see me paying for remote access to my home computer. I could easily just set up a vnc server on any windows or linux computer and forward a port on my router.

gorebrush

Meh, never used either of them - I SSH into home and tunnel everything for the grand total of freeeeeeeeeeeeeee

tpatt100

I've been using Teamviewer for a while now on my iPad to connect to my desktops upstairs and it works fine for that purpose.

instant000

gorebrush wrote: »

Meh, never used either of them - I SSH into home and tunnel everything for the grand total of freeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Hrm, you're referring to from remote locations, right, not from your work place?

I ask because I had a coworker get caught ssh'ing into his home network. He didn't get fired, but he was warned.

W Stewart

Probably depends on the company you work for. We're pretty laid back at my job and Most of my day is spent sshing or rdping into web servers anyway so I doubt anybody would care if we sshed into our home network. Not to mention that we sometimes need to test connectivity to a customer's server from an outside network since the firewalls allow all traffic from our noc by default and it's impossible to tell if the firewall is configure correctly for remote access that way.