Nick, I keep hearing that ricochet modems can do peer-to-peer outside of the ricochet network area. But I tried this and did not succeed. We could connect directly between two ricochet modems by dialing the serial number of the modem WITHIN the ricochet coverage area, but this did NOT work outside of the coverage area. If anyone can prove otherwise I'd love to hear about it. But I'm starting to think that this is a rumour that is not based in truth. When powered on the ricochet modem hardware searches for a transceiver to connect to automatically. If it finds one, you're good to go, you can dial into the standard ricochet net connection, you can dial another ricochet modem on the network, and you can even dial into a modempool if you chose that option for an extra five bucks a months. However, if the modem does not find a transceiver when powered on, the red light stays on and as far as I can tell nothing works. If someone has actually done this peer-to-peer connection outside of the ricochet coverage area please pipe in and let us know how you did it. By the way, the proxim modems (rangelan2 and symphony) definitily ARE peer-to-peer, they seek out and find each other. This allows jacket to automatically talk to car and house by walking within short proximity (assuming proper IP address and subnet config). I plan to eventually create a network daemon that uses GPS and some intelligence to configure for this kind of connection automatically -- Doug On Thu, 01 Mar 2001, Nick Kartsioukas wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 10:28:49PM -0500, James Hall wrote: > > What else is there? Ricochet 128k 'modems' sound right to me.. but I doubt > > their range is up to it (and if they could actually function peer-peer.. > > outside the Ricochet system) > > Ricochet modems can connect directly...I believe you issue an "ATDT x" to > the modem, where x is the serial number of the modem you wish to connect > to, backwards. Could be wrong about that detail though. > > -- > Nick Kartsioukas | KF6UZB >| NK2694 > > -- > Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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