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10-04-2011, 14:00

Alan Anderson Alan Anderson is offline

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Re: Building a field

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Originally Posted by dag0620

In terms as just a practice field, the basic Linksy's Router, 2 switches, and a laptop to run the FMS should be just fine.

The Linksys router that came in the 2009 Kit of Parts doesn't work to talk to multiple robots. Its subnet mask can't be set to 255.0.0.0, which is needed in order to handle more than one team number's IP addresses.

We tried reprogramming ours with DD-WRT firmware as an experiment, and at the moment we have a nice pretty blue brick with the Linksys logo on it.

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