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[slugdude]

Does this store the entire address of people? Or just a part of it?
Cause I just had the thought of splitting up addresses into geographical regions. So you would only have to keep a single small memory segment saying which addresses are local, and the device then just has to read route it based on if the location referencedata is N,S,E,W of the switch.
Could speed things up a bit and shrink the switches

I did have a similar idea already but decided against it, but I can't remember why. Besides, it doesn''t look like it's going to be *that* big. Since things have already been built around the address system I described, changing it at this point would probably be extra unnecessary effort. The memory will be about half the size of the total switch. the hubs will be even smaller since all addresses except local ones should be routed to the switch it is connected to, thus there is no need for the memory and it's associated parts.