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I want to improve the range that 2 esp8266's or an esp8266 and some other wireless device can send commands to each other. I want to have them communicate without "connecting"
Theoretically they should not have to "connect". How ever they send messages to each other to establish a connection they should be able to send any random message. I would have it constantly send a message until it receives confirmation.

I want them to communicate like arduinos communicate.

I need help with the low level programming to this. I dont know where to start. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

First they need to belong to the same network. Then you can probably accomplish what you want with sending UDP messages to each other. UDP is connectionless.

https://www.gitbook.com/book/krzychb/es ... ry/details is a very good starting point since you are familiar with Arduino.

Udp would probably help somewhat. But I want to communicate without even establishing a network.

I want to send and receive data with radio waves over the wifi frequency . Just using the wifi chip as a means to receive and transmit radio waves which interpreted to data. Just like communication with a wireless arduino.

For simple machine to machine commands this would be more efficient and I believe could increase the range.

If you do not need TCP/IP have a look at easyMesh http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11849

To get a long range you will need to use esp8266s that have an external antenna.