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The only thing I know about how cell phones work is that you have to be somewhere near a cell phone tower in order to get "bars." And to be perfectly honest with you, I'm not entirely certain how the internet works either.
Thus, I don't have very many references on how to handle Signal strength in SR4, when it comes to interacting with the new wireless matrix. So here's a few questions that have plagued me: If a hacker is out in the middle of a "dead zone", what does he need to get back in touch with the Matrix? Does he need to come into range of some sort of "Matrix Tower" (like a cell phone tower) to establish his connection? Or can he "daisy chain" back to civilzation provided that there are a chain of other smaller things to relay his signal? Like, let's just say for the sake of argument, he were leaving a trail of commlinks like breadcrumbs as he journeyed out further into the dead zone? Hacky wants to place a standard phone call to Sammy. Hacky has a commlink with a Signal of 5, which gives it an effective range of 4km. Sammy has a commlink he found in a storm drain with a Signal of only 1, which gives it an effective range of only 100m. Hacky is 3km away from Sammy. Can Hacky still make the call or will it not go through... ...if it were in the middle of a "dead zone?" ...if it were in the middle of a major metropolitan area with Sammy well within the range of other commlinks and stuff that can pick up his Signal? What happens when a commlink has enough Signal to "talk" to a Node, but the Node doesn't have enough Signal to reach the commlink? How about the reverse: Someone has the Signal to "talk" to something you have from afar, but none of your own gear can reach them? Are there such things as satellites that can relay your Signal to vast distances across the planet? What would you need to utilize them? Let's go back to the "dead zone" example: If you knew you were about to travel out in the middle of a "dead zone", are there devices you can bring with you whose sole purpose is to relay your Signal and pick up traffic from civilzation? Perhaps your own personal satellite dish or something like that? |
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