I did some searches on ricochet peer-to-peer. As I said I couldn't get it to work. However, the following are interesting references. This web page says "Ricochet also states that their modems can, in the absence of a local mini-cell, communicate on a peer-to-peer basis." http://earthops.org/internet_future.html I found a Ricochet modem guide. It does indicate that peer-to-peer is possible, and that it should work over 1/4 mile range. This guide does indicate exactly what Nick said, that you use the ATDT command with the serial number of the modem. http://jasper.stanford.edu/eddysite/pdf/modem.pdf This faq says that the peer-to-peer range is 1000-1500 feet. http://www.ps.elte.hu/~tolgyesi/high/wirel/ricochet.htm#apart But as I said a friend and I tried this with no success outside of the coverage area. Perhaps we were doing something wrong or had some probs with our configuration. If anyone has got this working, please let us know. I have two ricochet modems here. One is the old SX 56k modem and one is the new 128kb model. I also live in the mountains, one of the few places in the SF bay area that doesn't have ricochet coverage. This has always bothered me re wearables, if I was in ricochet territory at home I would just stay on ricochet all the time. Since I have two modems here I will try this peer-to-peer dialup once again and see if I can get it to work. If it does, that would be great, I could plug one into my server with frame relay connection to the net and then I could use the same modem for local and roaming. That is, unless ricochet shuts down this summer. Anyone have any more news on that? I'm gonna be really PO if I lose my ricochet connection! -- Doug -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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