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<blockquote data-quote="Forged Fury" data-source="post: 6554419" data-attributes="member: 95059"><p>PANs and WANs still exist, but they don't do the same thing they did in 4e. Since we're specifically talking about commlinks and PANs, my comments only focus on those as WANs are different. A commlink can form a PAN with devices, such as a smartgun. The benefit of that is that the smartgun gets to use the commlink's matrix attributes in place of its own for defense tests. The danger is that successfully hacking the smartgun starts the process of hacking your commlink. It doesn't work the other way though, hacking the commlink doesn't give you any added benefits in dealing with the smartgun (unless you brick the commlink which eliminates the PAN).</p><p></p><p>The main point I am trying to make is that in order to get any of the benefits listed under the Wireless part of each equipment entry, the device itself has to be Wireless ON (Connected to the Matrix) and susceptible to hacking. In 4e, you could turn your devices Wireless OFF and just leave your commlink Wireless ON and route the signal through it to the devices via wires or skinlink, which was what Shayuri was talking about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Forged Fury, post: 6554419, member: 95059"] PANs and WANs still exist, but they don't do the same thing they did in 4e. Since we're specifically talking about commlinks and PANs, my comments only focus on those as WANs are different. A commlink can form a PAN with devices, such as a smartgun. The benefit of that is that the smartgun gets to use the commlink's matrix attributes in place of its own for defense tests. The danger is that successfully hacking the smartgun starts the process of hacking your commlink. It doesn't work the other way though, hacking the commlink doesn't give you any added benefits in dealing with the smartgun (unless you brick the commlink which eliminates the PAN). The main point I am trying to make is that in order to get any of the benefits listed under the Wireless part of each equipment entry, the device itself has to be Wireless ON (Connected to the Matrix) and susceptible to hacking. In 4e, you could turn your devices Wireless OFF and just leave your commlink Wireless ON and route the signal through it to the devices via wires or skinlink, which was what Shayuri was talking about. [/QUOTE]
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