That's a question for @mdma - he said
But unless Particle proves Einstein wrong, these plans might be down the drain 
Oh! @ScruffR that would be depressing!
I was only talking about the planned ETA not the feature as such - no worries 
Cool 
The photons will be able to function as an AP mode - that’s on my imminent todo list. I’m not certain if we can automatically route all arbitrary connections between the AP and STA wifi connections, at least, that is most likely not going to be part of the initial release - this would require us to code up some kind of firewall to route IP packets between the two network interfaces and perform IP translation.
We will make it possible to bridge TCP connections between devices. The cloud connection will be automatically bridged, but not automatically for other connections - your app will need to include configuration to configure the bridge.