Am I Getting This Right? Options

[Zen Shooter01]

I'm finding a lot of "The Wireless World" rather confusing, but my biggest difficulty is this- how do you find the target computer? My solution follows. Somebody please check my work.

Let's say you want to hack a coke machine into dispensing free product. The coke machine node wants to interface with customers, so it operates in active mode all the time. So you make a matrix perception test, as per pg. 217, to specifically examine the coke machine - the machine itself is standing right in front of you, but the test is to get your computer to cozy up to its computer. Then you go to the hacking rules on pg. 208 to break into the node. Once you've got Admin access to the coke machine's brain, you own it, and with a simple action can order it to do anything you want.

Second example. You suspect that the node that controls the sentry guns is within range of your commlink, but hidden from plain sight. So you make a matrix perception test vs. a target that's hiding from you, as per pg. 217. Once you find the node, you go to the hacking rules on 208 to bugger it senseless.

Now here's the knot I can't untie - what if that coke machine is in Shanghai and you're in Detroit? The rules are exactly the same as if you're standing in front of it? And the same goes for the sentry gun node? Because you're signal just hops from your commlink to a nearby lamppost to a satellite to the target node? (Presuming it's not in a matrix dead zones.)