Quote Originally Posted by ardhuru View Post
Dave, in that case wouldnt there be constant collisions in the incoming packets, affecting the validity of the actual data seen by the receiver?

Anand
Receivers are constantly being flooded with noise from everywhere. That is why the checksum or some other way of knowing if the signal being received is good or data we are after. If the ID is part of that then we know the data is good and where it came from.