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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: April 06, 2006
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- Average user rating: stars out of 194 votes
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Publisher's description
From Pure Networks :Network Magic eliminates home networking hassles and helps you do more with your network. It lets you easily share printers and files across all the PCs in your network, view a detailed and dynamic map of your entire network, and protect your wireless network from intruders. Additionally, Network Magic lets you easily add new PCs and devices to your network, manage the security of all your PCs from one centralized dashboard, and remotely access files on your home network from anywhere using just an Internet browser.
Version 3 includes new features such as Network Lock to lock-out wireless network intruders and Network Health & Security Alerts to let you manage the security of all your PCs in one place.
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User reviews of Network Magic 3
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 194 votes
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13 out of 15 people found this review helpful
Version: Network Magic 3
"Wasn't invented for every network types."
Pros: Nice GUI and seems easy to use.
The license text's length is around 346 lines (with blank lines but no word wrap): i only write license to pros because i found license texts related to the author's third-party products as well.
Cons: The authors themselves can't decide the name of the product they should give to you.
Some strange parts from license, where i'd need some examples:
- At 2./b) You agree that Pure Networks may audit your use of the Software for compliance with this EULA at any time, upon reasonable notice." What could be that? It's not clear.
- at 4. Net2Go: "We may modify or change the URL for your personal web page at any time;..." Bad start?
- at 13. General: "the Software may collect and send to Pure Networks anonymous product usage information ..." It seems - "may" - it'll collect informations from my computer. A switch is necessery for this whatever they mean under "anonymous".
I had trouble with first install but there are unrequested connections to the Internet:
- from 1412 to 64.94.116.148.
- the service may connect to downloads.networkmagic.com?
There's an automaticly installed "Pure Networks NDIS Relay Protocol Driver" protocoll at your Internet connection's protocolls (did they ask me to allow it?)
No option to skip service installations, and so, you can't skip "Pure Networks Net2Go Service", which is not needed if you don't want the Net2Go part (and you can't use that with this software's free release /whatever it's name/).
After submiting a router info, the program hanged for a long time (i closed it). I decided to get more infos: but, Internet gone away for vacation. As a common user thing, i searched for the Uninstaller: add-remove i say with program name "Pure Networks Network Magic". It wasn't able to stop it's services but i helped it's project by closeing the service by the taskmanager. Later the uninstaller opened a web page - i had no Internet connection - and asked me to restart (why it wasn't asked after install but after uninstall?).
Note: the program didn't tell you to disable any security applications, which is a misstake.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Network Magic 3
"Fantastic product if you are new to setting up networks!"
Pros: Network Magic helped setup my network in no time at all after spending a many very frustrating hours trying to do the same with windows xp software and the toshiba laptop software. Until using Network Magic I was unable to get an ethernet connection working between my broadband modem and my laptop, little own any wireless connection.
The network map is great, very easy to read and follow. The diagnostics that the software lists are great.
Cons: Trying to set up WEP security wasn't that easy. There were the help section but no functional links to do it.
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Version: Network Magic 3
"OK for people who don't know how to setup a network."
Pros: It's easy and quick.
Cons: Couldn't see my router settings and many times said there was no internet connection when there was one. After I uninstalled Network Magic I had to resetup my computer for netorking because for some reasons the settings that were there before I installed NM were gone after I unistalled it.
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Version: Network Magic 3
Pros: Easy to install.
Cons: I installed this in hopes it would simplify linking my laptop and two home computers. It did not. I still cannot link my laptop via wireless even though I have good signal. When I installed NM and shared some folders to the network, my MS Office package began running very slowly and erratically. When I uninstalled NM, the problems did not abate. My system is now so unstable dialog boxes freeze and my computer tells me the applications have stopped responding. But if I wait a couple of minutes they resume operation. NM denies that their application caused the problem, but if so, it is one of the most amazing cases of illusory correlation I have ever seen.
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Version: Network Magic 3
Pros: Nice GUI, easy to install, user friendly, pretty decent piece of software
Cons: I had to unistall because of 'network path not found' errors...my win xp system was never able to access folders on my win98 system. Most likely, problems from my end.
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