There may have been an update to this that I have not seen - my first encounter with anything other than mechanical was last night helping a fledgling team - but I had a similar problem setting up their bot.
I *think there are typo's in the setup guide.
Normally all of the machines that you want to have (easily) see each other behind a router have to share the same subnet mask.
The commone one used in home networks is 255.255.255.0 (the class C subnet mask), but the FRC document guide, (5.6.1) says to use 255.0.0.0 (the class A subnet mask) for both the Linksys Wireless Gaming Adapter, and your PC (after setting up the wireless router on the operator interface).
...communication badness ensues...
Setting the gaming adapter and your PC to 255.255.255.0 seems to fix the problems (we were able to get the bot wirelessly controlled from LabView).
I'm not sure if my logic was correct in not just switching the router on the O.I. over to the 255.0.0.0 subnet, instead of switching the other two - we didn't have time to try it, and this worked. There may be some reason for the Class A/C mask difference dealing with their networks at the events, but I don't know enough about subnetting to tell.
(I'm curious to see how the events go with 30-50 security wonky networks and all those iPods/team routers in the stands deal with the traffic/etc.)
That brings up two quick questions (and one long one)...
1) Which is right, the Class A or Class C subnet?
2) Does anyone know if we can/should set up security on our OI routers (by MAC address) or will they then not be able to kill them at the end of the round?
3) (unrelated) - Are there any LabView pros going to the Midwest Regional I can steal for about 10-15 mins for a primer
