# Set Up a VPN For PC and Mac

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/set-up-a-vpn-for-pc-and-mac/626210>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [June 25, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/set-up-a-vpn-for-pc-and-mac/626210 "2012-06-25T03:13:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/set-up-a-vpn-for-pc-and-mac/626210/1 "2012-06-25T03:13:37Z")

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My friend and I both have Civ 5, and we want to play each other. Sadly, I’m on a PC and he’s on a Mac, and has the Campaign Edition, meaning we can only play each other by LAN. I believe there’s a way to do this remotely, through a VPN? Does anyone know what I have to do to achieve this? I’m not THAT computer literal, and all my Google-Fu turns up is instructions that may as well be written in Chinese. I found a few programs that promise to make it work, but they seem to be PC only… Any help?

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**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/set-up-a-vpn-for-pc-and-mac/626210/2 "2012-06-25T03:36:52Z")

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LogMeIn Hamachi is probably what you’re looking for, it sets up a network tunnel between two computers. I don’t recall the exact instructions, but they’re pretty self-explanatory.