Commercial use - Connection time out
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Face it. They don't want you as a customer. No other company, except EA, treats customers like Teamviewer does. Try another product; if you aren't spending gobs of money on their over-hyped product, then you are just an annoying flea to them to be swatted and treated badly. I think they only provide a free teamviewer, nags and admonishments included, because [Removed By Moderator as per Community Guidelines] does not. I'm uninstalling TV on all my computers tonight and when my clients' licenses lapse next month, I'm putting them on another product. At least[Removed By Moderator as per Community Guidelines] is honest about their intentions, so maybe I"ll go back to them.
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Please read the OP.
We are moving the posts here for a reason.https://www.teamviewer.com/en/support/commercial-use-suspected/
-Scotty
Senior Moderator
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Hi Scotty, I keep getting disconnected and blocked from my personal system I’m trying to access remotely with my cellphone. I can’t upload logs through my iPhone so I can’t submit a ticket. I’m not using teamviewer commercially please unblock my accounts and systems permanently.0
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Hi t0mmyr
As it says in the OP, I cannot help you with this. I cannot remove the restriction and posting here will not help.
Email the logs to yourself then upload them into the form, this is why it has an email function in the app.
The form is the ONLY way to get reset.
-Scotty
Senior Moderator
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Same issue here.
I had the issue when on holiday in China in April, when trying to access my home PC, but after submitting the form, the issue cleared.
It has now reared its ugly head again, and on reading this forum, seems I am not alone. And it also looks from others' comments like there may well not be a fix this time.
It looks like, after a number of years of being a very happy user of Teamviewer, I will have to look for an alternative, as I simply cannot justify over £300 per year just for hobby use.
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The same issue.
Tell us if you want to exclude free users or if this is a temporary bug.
Because if this is a bug I'll wait for the next release otherwise I'll find another remote access software.
P.S. I try to link only my PC (one PC) form another. I don't use T.V. for commercial use.
Thanks in advance for your reply.
Best regards
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Same here as well. Been a happy free user for >10 years and now unproven punished as criminal. Many years before I have suggested to offer something as a 'personal supporter' license for a few bucks (as I like to pay for usable & helpful software), but TV had rejected thats nobbishly generously.
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I suppose we must find another software for our personal uses.
What a SHAME for T.V. management and staff.
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As my previous post was removed due the violation of the policies I knidly ask where and how can the end user receive some in-depth information about the method TV flag someone as a commercial user. Not in-depth in the technical level as don't want to break any intelectual property but some high level information how the end users can make sure they won't be marked as commercial users. There are a lots of reports from various locations, with various way the end users uses their TV infra and I think none of us knows when and how we broke anyting and become marked as commercial users.
Once again - just to make sure this post not breaks anything - just a high level information like (if you use your tv via your corporate VPN you'll be marked as commercial user even you connects only your home pc, or similar.)
If this thread is not the right place to ask then please, please point out where these kind of question can be asked? (other thread, reddit forum, support e-mail, etc)
I assume if we know what need to be avoided will lead much less false justifications.
I hope this post doesn't contain any rumor or invalid information and not break any bit of the policy of the forum usage.
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My dear,
thanks for your reply. I hope the staff tell us some infos because this situation is very hard to resolve.
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They won't tell us. There are three main groups of users. 1. Commercial users who paid for a license. 2. Commercial users that should have paid for a license but didn't and are saying they are not commercial. 3. Non-commercial users who didn't pay for a license and aren't required to.
This new strategy of Teamviewer is to get group 2 to pay for a license. Group 1 already paid and so they will not be adversely affected. Group 2 will have some users locked out and they will either pay or more likely look for another, cheaper solution. Maybe some of them are here in this forum pretending to be non-commerial users. Some group 2 users will not be detected and so not affected; so lucky for them. Group 3 will have some people falsely accused of using TV commercially. This is collateral damage. TV doesn't care very much about them. TV needs to make a profit so it's more important to convert some group 2 into group 1 than it is to not affect group 3. If this were not true their strategy would be different like mentioned by a few people on this forum already. They would have a gentler strategy than blocking users without warning and / or they would have more support staff assigned to make the recovery time much much shorter than 30+ days.
If they tell us all what the algorithm is for suspecting commercial use, it will give some of those users in group 2 a better chance to evade detection. Again, they don't care so much if group 3 is inconvenienced.
I'll probably have this post censored too. But at least everyone subscribed to this forum will see it in their email notifications.
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It seems I had success in bringing this to the attention of our most renowned IT magazine, and they'll be looking into it.
And likely be writing about it.3 -
I too gave up. Signed up for an annual subscription with a competitor that is less than $100 a year for up to 10 computers.
TV just doesn't understand that many of us are willing to pay to access our home and/or SOHO computers. The management from **Third Party Product** must have transitioned into TV. It is the only explanation for their "we don't care" attitudes.
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Everytime I connect today to a friends computer to help them, it kicks me out after one or two minutes saying it has timed out. I deleted the program and re-loaded and still get the same results. Any ideas would be appreceiated.
Thanks
Roger
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Dear Napster,
Thank you for your message.
On the following link, you will find plenty of information regarding this issue:
For unlimited access, you need to purchase a license.
Here the link to get more information about our licenses: https://www.teamviewer.com/en/buy-now/
I hope this could help you.
Cheers,
Jean
Community Manager
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Dear John_W,
Thank you for your message.
On the following link, you will find plenty of information about your issue:
I hope this could help you.
Cheers,
Jean
Community Manager
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Is anyone else struck by the grim irony of the publisher of a bit of software that facilitates instantaneous global communications telling its user base that a) they're guilty until proven innocent and b) proving their innocence will take "up to 30 days?"
The boardroom brainwave of massively annoying and inconveniencing legitimate users complying with the license terms, then effectively locking them out could not be more draconian or short-sighted. Someone, somewhere believes this will produce a flood of revenue via new license purchases but how many other companies have attempted same only to watch their market share vanish?
Sending detailed logs away on the equivalent of a slow boat to China with no clearly defined procedure or timeline is madness - and they want to make it contagious.
If this is a "community" then it's a very hostile neighborhood judging from the pugnacious responses of the so-called service team who spend the majority of their time telling the user base to get stuffed in so many words. Well, that and pedantically removing links and names of competitors - I'll bet that's a fulfilling, self-actualizing day at the office!
But even that makes no sense. If people ARE running afoul of the license terms and want to abandon the product then that is a win-win for TeamViewer. Support requests and workload will be reduced and network traffic will ease.
The user base has watched TV shift the goalposts on a regular basis but Operation Lockout can't even adhere to its own stated policies: if 5 min is the prescribed window then why are users experiencing and reporting sessions closing after 20-30 seconds in many cases? Where did the seemingly arbitrary number of minutes to wait to try again originate and why?
Building a user base and then implementing a hostage scenario might be the most bizarre business plan since New Coke. But, as before, the decision-making at the top seems completely disconnected - pun intentional - from the user base.
Yes, yes, terms of service (for the software and the service) and all that but ultimately any product is about a value proposition.
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Does anyone know why I can't submit the form they have? I get a "Secure Connection Failed" message, indicated something wrong with their email setup.
All I use TV for is to control a computer 10 feet away from my main one so I don't have to walk across the room. Doesn't sound very commercial to me.
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Great, now I'm getting popped for TeamViewer thinking I'm using the product for Commercial Use. In what crazy world does me connecting to my home computer, which resides on Comcast's network "for Commercial use." Am I going to get the same message if I try to help my mother when she has issues? I've been using TeamViewer for many many years, but it's time for me to find another solution. I hardly think this issue will addressed quickly or even at all.
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Same problem here. I use TeamViewer to connect home and support family members, including elderly relatives. Probably only 3 connections used regularly as the kids are old enough to solve most of their own problems now.
I've been cut off without warning or any indication as to why I've been flagged as commercial. I've uploaded logfiles but if this is now a regular problem I need an alternative which I can use on Windows and Mac OS.
Ironically I was only recently recommending TeamViewer as good for family use. Guess I'd better reverse that advice!
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Interestingly the message tells me they have a 'high volume of requests at this time'.
However looking at the dates of reports, this is obviously a long running issue so not sure how confident I am in a fix. I support elderly relatives who I'd need to visit to change their software (if they could do this themselves they wouldn't need me...). This leaves them without support until we have a fix in effect so possibly I should just move to another option anyway
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All of a sudden, when I attempt to connect to my home computer, on a Brighthouse Network, I get bumped, and connection blocked after timeout. I only use this account now for personal use, and now TeamViewer seems to think I'm Commercial. Maybe because of my email address?? I only use this account to "support" my family, most of which are too far away from me to drive over and fix their issues. Anyone else have a resolution to this?? Thanks in advance!
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I've been a long time personal user, and only access my own computers at home. And also have this same problem. I wonder if they are starting to force personal users to purchase commercial license or this was a glitch that will hopefully be fixed soon.
What version of teamviewer are you using? I'm still on 10, tried 11 when it came out and didn't like it, I've kept everything on 10. Wondering if the older ver could be a factor.
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JeanKinzler,
wow, you have phrased it as ths is understood in your organisation
"...you will find plenty of information about YOUR issue."
Actually, imho it's TV's issue, not the users issue.
TV has started this, based on criteria and justified with details which never had posted before. Even (as it is in my case) when you never violated against the rules, I feel nasty treated and slandered without getting any proof from you.
Well, probably it's getting time to sue you for libel (the german word is Verleumdungsklage).
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Hi....thanks for your response. Unfortunately, maybe, I've updated to the latest 13.1.3629. Because of my previous profession, I'm now having to "support" maybe 10 family computers, but 90% of the time I'm just logging into my home PC from my "new" office. It allows me to monitor camera's and other activity at my house....lol
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Found another thread with similar issues and a couple of solutions to try.
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Thanks for the suggestion, your post seems to have been deleted. I do need something which supports Macs as well as Windows.
Frustratingly I've just realised I have to raise a ticket and upload a logfile for each machine in my group. So that will be 6 or 7 tickets and the most critical machines are those with elderly relatives who are not local. The minute or two of time I get in each session isn't enough to get the logfiles of. I used to recommend TV a lot, I'd not recommend it to people using it to support dependent relatives now
I have in the past suggested to them that they have a domestic licence - a modest price for a modest support level and to support the product. Looking at how these issues are managed I think its probably time to look for an alternative in either case. This is plainly a regular problem and not well handled - sudden cut off, obscure process and multiple tickets required for one user. Not surprising they are inundated
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I also have the same problem this morning. I don't believe you need to submit log file from all PCs. I believe you only need to submit the log file and ID for the PC that's having trouble connecting to the other devices.
The reason I said that is, I'm able to grab another PC from my network and access the other devices just fine. So it seems for whatever reason, only one of the PC on the network if affected by this issue. And I've only submitted the log file for this PC.
And for everyone who's affected by this, in the mean time, try another PC to access your other devices in the mean time as a workaround.
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By the way, I've also just posted a suggestion at that other thread that as a work around while waiting for support ticket to be reviewed and access restored. Try using another PC to access your other devices. It works for me. So it seems the access ban is not account-wide, but individual PC that for whatever reason triggered the connection limit.
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