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Re: Finding Distance From Driver Station
It'd be kind of interesting. You'd only be able to derive the radius of an arc from the field AP from this method. Probably a distance of 10 to 60 feet, so even with a best error of +/-12 feet it won't place you in one of this year's zones.

You'd only want to ping the AP (an 10.0.0.x address) if you can to eliminate other network latency from throwing off your results. For your tests at home pinging your wireless router at 10.xx.yy.4. That'll be a nice experiment that you don't have to confine to the dimensions of an FRC field.
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