You can pick whichever license makes sense to you, and you can change your license over time if you want to. There are various paid licenses for single users, small businesses, and even enterprises (very large organizations).Įach license has a different price point and offers different levels of access and various lists of features. Once upon a time, you could make a single purchase for a lifetime license. In its time, the software license has evolved. TeamViewer has been around for more than a decade. It’s really up to the person who made the software to decide how they want to license it. There is everything in between those levels. There are licenses where you have to pay a monthly fee in order to maintain access to the technology. There are licenses where you make one payment and you can use the software for the rest of your life. This is a legal agreement where the person who owns the software copyright gives you permission to use their stuff. Instead, what you pay for is a software license. To keep it in simple terms, you don’t really ever own software, even after you buy it. To understand the mechanics of what is happening, we should get deeper into software licensing.

Unfortunately, this message has been known to pop up when it shouldn’t, in which case it’s a pretty big error. It’s telling you how the free version is limited. If you are a free user, then this isn’t an error message at all.

In other words, they want you to buy a license in order to keep doing what you are doing. TeamViewer is deliberately blocking the connection because the type of license used is limited and doesn’t allow you to connect to the other device for indeterminate periods. Reading through it, the mystery dissolves.

Please try later or upgrade your license. Your license limits the maximum session duration to a partner, immediate reconnects are blocked. I’m going to explain how to deal with this in detail, but it all makes more sense if we go over the full text of the common error message: 3.4 #4 Try a Different App What Does TeamViewer’s Connection Blocked After Timeout Message Mean?

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