Photon using Wifi on non internet connected network

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I made a new post with my example code of how I got an example telnet server working without Wi-Fi in manual mode.

TCPServer example using SYSTEM_MODE(MANUAL)

There was recently a question about adapting the TCPServer telnet example code for use in MANUAL mode so your own code could run even when the network goes away. I wrote a little sample program that does this, and also instruments the amount of time spent outside of loop(), inside of our own code, and in Particle.process() so you can play around with it and see how system thread modes affect these things, too. The code is really designed so you can play around with it, disconnect the Wi-Fi or In…