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John wrote:

> Assume that our wireless network is not very reliabable and occasionally we 
> lose connection.
> We want to send some binary data from our notebook to N number of other 
> computers.

We would like to know then if the other computers have clients running.
In that case your laptop had the server. If the connection got lost then
the server application could do nothing but waiting for a client to connect
again. Then the client decides what happens then.

If your laptop has a client program that connects to servers on other computers
then you could program that client in such a way that it would reconnect
and resend. But it is all the protocol you are going to
make. Would you implement resuming download at the same position?

> We also want to receive some other binary data packets from M number of 
> other computers.

The same problem here.

> We want to have this communication to be as fast as possible and as reliable 
> as possible. Both N and M would vary depending on various circumstances.
> 
> What would you advise for such a system?

Nothing special. You need clients that reconnect at errors. And
your protocol should state how errors are handled. And allow
partial downloads.

Hans.