Re: DS INFO BLOWOUT!
 

If your school has a wireless network, you have a chance you can use it. If not, you'll have to be close to eachother.

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wireless networks should work. or if your in reach of someone elses DS, whos in reach of somone elses, who reaches someone else and so on getting all the way down to your friend.

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LOL, that could be quite a long line of people to direct a message across the country.

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.... will that really work? :confused:

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The way they've discribed it, is the DS sets up its own kind of network grid.

as long as your in distance to connect to one person in the grid, your connected to that entire grid. Now it depends on how good the DS does and how many people get it. but if you think of North America, then put a grid patter over it... And a dot lights up every time someone activates a DS.... as long as you can connect the dots from one spot to the other.. everyone in that line is connected. More that have a DS, the bigger the network gets and more people it can connect to.

Which then this grid is further enhanced by people using wireless network with internet in thier home. Say you got a small grid in new york, everyones in reach and everyone connects to each other. but theres no trail that leads from the 'ny network' to another group of people in chicago. If one of the people in NY connected to that network, is connected to the internet. and one in chicago is also. i guess thoes 2 networks become one.

Now the more you think about this the more it gets confusing.
The simplist way to say it, is that Each DS acts as a WiFi reciever, and a repeater hub to send the signal back out.

and i think the PSP works the same way.

Re: DS INFO BLOWOUT!
 

Well, if that is indeed the case and you are able to connect with many people, I will definetely be picking either the DS or PSP up.

I think I want to wait and see which one picks up the fastest. Right now even though the PSP looks like it could be good, I think I might stick with the DS because Nintendo has a good hold on the handheld market and I think most people will be getting that, making a network idea more viable.

*thinks of multiplayer FF3*

*prays*

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Hm, that huge network idea sounds really... 'big'.
BTW, I think DS can only have 16 units in 1 network. I don't know if it creates a new network after that, or things start to interfere...

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Do both DS units have to be on to receive a message or can a message be sent and received later like e-mail? Because obviously everyone has different schedules and stuff and it would just seem kind of pointless if you could only send messages to each other when you're both currently using your DS's. One of my friends lives in a different time zone so we're sleeping at opposite times. So if I sent a message to him while he's sleeping, and the next morning when he boots up his DS, will the message come in?