ConnectUO

ConnectUO is a tool to help find, patch, and connect to freeshards. It is developed by the RunUO team. ConnectUO is the most widely used connection tool for players of freeshards. It is able to remove the client encryption to allow connections to freeshards. Upon selecting a shard to play on, it automatically downloads and temporarily patches your UO client install with any custom patches that are needed for that shard. It then opens your UO client and has an option to load razor with it.

However UOGateway was an easier to use and better package to use for connecting to free shards as it was easier to have it install and run patches for the shard it was connecting the player to. It would be better if UOGateway were revived than to use connectuo, but since it seems that the UOGateway team gave/sold the source code and rights to the RunUO team that makes and maintains the connectuo package, it is unlikely to ever come back. A shame in my oppinion.

Other Connect Tools

 * Razor
 * UOGateway