D-Star High Speed Data Modes (Part 3)

This article is part three of several D-Star High Speed Data Mode articles.  If you are new to D-Star, I'd recommend that you read my other article first; What is D-Star?  Also the previous Part 1 and Part 2 of this series may be of interest to you.  Part 1 focuses on getting two Icom ID-1 radios to talk to each other in a Peer to Peer fashion.  Part 2 focuses on the details of a multi-peer network.  No data repeater is involved.  This article will focus on the repeater mode (RPS).  There are three possible setups that can occur in this mode.  The first is on a repeater without access to the internet, so data can only be shared with the local network of ID-1's.  The second is on a repeater with access to the internet via a standard DSL or Cable type connection, so the computer's connected to the ID-1's will act much like a standard computer connected to an internet based LAN cable.  The third, but not necessarily final, setup is with a repeater that is using the Gateway software to connect the repeater to the internet.  This should allow data to be shared between different Gateway computers on the D-Star network as well as a NAT type of connection to the internet.

Of the recently acquired five Icom ID-1 radios, I'm setting up three radios on the network to see how/if the radios will work as a normal network would function using the three setups mentions above.