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I am using a couple adafruit Huzzah boards and need to create a server client pair that does not run on any type of internet wifi. The server esp8266 will host and a client will listen for it to send information. I have a functioning server that I can connect with on my smart phone, this is essentially the example sketch on the arduino IDE, and I have a client that can connect to the server. However, I have no idea how to make the client listen or the server send out information. Eventually I will need to run 4 other esp8266 modules off of that same server. It seems like there is a lot of information out there about this but it is not on the topic of an independent server. They all seem to use an esp module that has internet access to the web. Any link to an easy and basic tutorial would be great.