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Léon Pelletier
Léon Pelletier

Reputation: 2741

Is peer-to-peer possible between two distant devices?

Are there limitations that would prevent from establishing a tcp/ip socket connection between two distant devices? (Not on the same WiFi LAN.)

[Edit]

I missed this one: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/hh202858(v=vs.105).aspx

I'll try it as it seems like the usual client/server snippet, but for WP, so that looks promising.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 73

Answers (1)

seand
seand

Reputation: 5296

I don't think you can do this directly device to device due to dynamically assigned IP address visibility etc. You might have to expose a web service on the public internet for this purpose. Basically a web service both devices can see and communicate with. (ex. Heroku, Amazon AWS). One device can keep a blocking connection ("Comet") while the other device initiates connections.

Upvotes: 2

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