A new user logs on and requests to join the NEST ring using conventional TCPIP protocol. The server allocates a place on the ring calculating the nearest neighbours to the users already placed. The server also calculates the shortest geographical distance for the ring has to travel between them.

The server then allocates the IP addresses of those nearest neighbours back to the client (user A), as its in and out (send and receive). The server also notify's the previous in the ring to send to user A .This is done again with the TCPIP protocol. The user then starts to send packets of audio to the next user using the UPD protocol.

Thus placing the client within the NEST loop.

These packets pass through a command line client that is in communication with the server.