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QBIK WinGate 7

Welcome to Qbik, the original home of WinGate software

Founded in 1995, Qbik is a privately owned software development company specialising in Internet connectivity and security. Qbik has a range of software products allowing users to manage their Internet connectivity (WinGate), connect remote offices together (WinGate VPN), and combat network security issues (NetPatrol).

When it was first released in October 1995, WinGate was the world's first Internet connection sharing proxy solution for MS Windows, allowing users simultaneous access to the Internet over a single connection. Since then WinGate has evolved into a sophisticated yet easy-to-use Internet connectivity management suite.

Proxy ServerWinGate Proxy Server

WinGate is a sophisticated integrated Internet gateway and communications server designed to meet the control, security and communications needs of today's businesses. In addition to a comprehensive range of features, WinGate Proxy Server's license options provide you the flexibility to match your needs to your budget, whether you need to manage an enterprise, small business, or home network.

Key Functions

WinGate Proxy Server allows you to:

  • Provide secure and managed Internet access for your entire network via a single or multiple shared internet connections
  • Enforce advanced and flexible access-control and acceptable use policies
  • Monitor usage in real time, and maintain per-user and per-service audit logs.
  • Stop viruses, spam and inappropriate content from entering your network
  • Provide comprehensive internet and intranet email services.
  • Protect your servers from internal or external threats.
  • Improve network performance and responsiveness with web and DNS caching
  • Ease administration burdens on your internal networks.

Key Benefits

Using WinGate Proxy Server to actively manage the use of your Internet and network resources can provide many benefits, including:

  • Improved Employee productivity through reduced time wastage
  • Reduced time and resources required to maintain network integrity
  • Reduced Employer liabilities
  • Improved efficiency, responsiveness and reliability of network access
WinGate - Gatekeeper

Internet Sharing

WinGate Proxy Server will share most types of Internet connection, allowing multiple users to simultaneously surf the web, retrieve their email, or use other internet programs, as if they were directly connected to the Internet. Whether it is a simple dialup modem or high speed fibre, WinGate Proxy Server can help to make the most out of the connection. WinGate Proxy Server supports a wide variety of Internet protocols, allowing applications such as Web browsers, messaging software, FTP and SSL. WinGate Proxy Server also supports DirectPlay Internet games and Real Time Streaming Audio/Video.

Control Internet Access

With WinGate Proxy Server's user database and policies, administrators can limit and control user access to the Internet. With logging, auditing, and a real time activity and history viewer, detailed records of user activities can be easily examined. This makes WinGate Proxy Server ideal for companies, schools, Internet cafes or any environment where Internet access needs to be monitored closely.

Built-in Security

WinGate Proxy Server comes with a built-in packet-inspecting firewall. Your network safety can be further enhanced with optional plug-in components, available seperately, which will scan incoming data for viruses, or filter out inappropriate content in web traffic. Read how WinGate Proxy Server has helped some of the 750,000 + registered customers to make the most of their Internet connection.

WinGate 7 released

We are all very pleased to announce the public release of WinGate 7.0.

Downloads:
We have:

  • moved the old WinGate 6 downloads to the archive section on our web hosting server. This means any hard-coded links to the old downloads will now be redirected to the download page on www.wingate.com.
  • updated the links in the WinGate 7 update system, so existing beta and RC users will be informed of the new release within the next 24 hours.
  • not changed the version we advertise for WinGate 6 update checking. We plan to wait for a week before doing this to reduce impact of any potential issues with the release.

WinGate VPN
After quite a lot of thought, we decided not to offer a separate download and install for WinGate VPN. However, we still sell a WinGate VPN license so it can still be considered a separate product. As you should all be aware, WinGate VPN always was just WinGate, with a different user interface switched by the license, and different help file.

With the changes in WinGate 7, it made no sense to continue this approach, since:

  • the entire user interface is built according to what features are licensed anyway
  • The help system is componentised also
  • Many of the new features are available in WinGate VPN, and it made no sense to try and show these in a different overall user interface

This means that to install WinGate VPN, a customer should install WinGate, and then activate a WinGate VPN license.

Reminder About Licensing for WinGate 7
We removed the version designation from licenses, so we won't be selling WinGate 7 licenses, only WinGate licenses.

The only requirement for existing WinGate 6 license holders to update to WinGate 7 is that they must have had valid version protection as of January 1st 2011. If their version protection had expired before then they will need to renew it to run WinGate 7.

WinGate 7 Licensing
WinGate 7 uses the exact same licenses and keys as WinGate 6. We removed version labelling from the licenses to reiterate this fact.

Eligibility of a license to be activated in WinGate 7 is solely a function of its version protection expiry date (anything expiring post 1 Jan 2011 is eligible). Therefore any new licenses may be used in both WinGate 6 and 7. Please help to get the word out to your customers because the more users we can get running WinGate 7 now the better.

WinGate 6 Licenses and Version Protection
Any WinGate 6 licenses with valid version protection as of January 1st 2011 will be able to activate their license in WinGate 7.

Customers running WinGate 6 whose version protection is expired and the expiry is prior to 1 Jan 2011 will need to update version protection in order to be able to activate their license in WinGate 7.

New online documentation system
Our new online help system is now available, and WinGate 7 documentation has been uploaded to it. This site allows for uploading / decompilation of CHM files and management of help content. It also has a facility to generate help files for download on demand - users can download the complete .chm file, or build their own collection of help pages by selecting relevant topics.

The system can also be used to author and maintain help, as well as collect feedback and community input on topics. We plan to make this the source of help documentation for off-line help going forward.

WinGate of course still ships with off-line, in-product help accessed through the F1 key from within the WinGate Administration Console. To get the latest documentation customers should go to: help.qbik.com

WinGate 7 YouTube Videos and Twitter
If you haven't seen it, we have a YouTube channel with videos on using WinGate 7 which you can find here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/QbikNZltd

We also have a Twitter account if you'd like to follow us for all the latest updates, you can find us on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/#!/WinGate

WinGate 7.2: the return of the free license.

We've been working pretty hard over the last month or so on WinGate 7.2. The most significant and exciting change, and one which affects you all is the re-introduction of a free licensee.

From the very start back on October 5 1995 when WinGate 1.0 was first released, we had a free version. Back then it was free for the user on the proxy plus one other network user. Around 2002, we were convinced to discontinue this, and since then (even before WinGate 6) WinGate usage has been in decline.

After numerous discussions in-house and with several of you, we decided to re-introduce a free license, the main reasons are as follows:

  1. There are a number of competing products which offer a free license, or are completely free. You get a lot more for a free product nowadays.

  2. By and large, these free products dominate on the internet, in terms of search results, discussions, blogs, etc.

  3. We believe WinGate is a lot better than these other products, but doesn't perform as well in terms of web traffic, and sales opportunities.

  4. We believe by making a version of WinGate available for free, we should be able to dominate in the free product space, and reap benefits of greatly increased market presence, thereby increasing market share and revenues. We're in this for the money.

  5. To date, WinGate 7 has proven much better at up-selling to higher-tier licenses than previous versions did.

What to give away

The type of license we decided to make free is the WinGate Standard 3 user license. In addition to this, we made the ability to participate in a VPN available to all WinGate licenses (effectively the single user license).

We also spent a fair bit of time going over what sort of offering we should make for free, since even the WinGate Standard 3 user license is fairly capable. It's a lot of proxy for the money. The main reasons we opted for this license are:

  1. Competing products offer around 3 users.

  2. We make very little from sales of Standard 3 user licenses.

  3. We didn't see any features we could easily further restrict from the restrictions already applied to Standard.

  4. Creating another tier of license has a number of other development and deployment problems.

What it means for you

What this means, is that we will have a number of customer issues, and changes required to websites. We currently plan to cease sales of WinGate Standard 3 user, and WinGate VPN Remote Client licenses, since these are effectively now free..

It's possible some customers may still wish to obtain these licenses, e.g. if they are running WinGate 6, or still want a VPN only license. I would imagine convincing most people to go with the free license will not be difficult.

Support for free users

We don't expect you to provide support for free users, but we plan to still provide support to these customers. This is because:

  1. We don't want to worsen support experience for existing customers by making them cross a threshold (proof of purchase, or proof of trial).

  2. We currently provide full support for trial users. People won't buy the product if they can't get it working.

  3. We hope to greatly increase the number of users, and support burden (!!) in order to provide better information for development priorities.

So, if you have customers you think would like the free version, feel free to support them, or pass them through to us.

How it works

The free license is available from 7.2 onwards only, and requires activation. So a customer will need to download and install this version. When activating, a 3rd option is now available, being to activate a free license. Requiring activation gives us ongoing control about the availability of the free license, and what it can do. There's not much more to it than that. There are a few restrictions:

  1. The system won't allow more than 1 free license per installation.

  2. Even if the customer manages to obtain more than 1 matching activation files for free licenses, only 1 will be loaded by WinGate.

  3. If any other WinGate license is installed (e.g. paid or trial), the free license will not provide any additional user count.

  4. If a user has a trial installed, and activates a free license, the trial will be removed (prevents nasty surprises when the trial expires).

  5. The activation files create by the free license are not usable in older versions of WinGate (so if the customer rolls back version, it will stop). This is to prevent circumvention of the restrictions on free licenses.

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