So we are holding up this situation but still roll INI until all preparations are done.
will you have the time to bring the connection up just in a few hours?
and more importantly do you think everyone would agree to that, as this job seems easy and until now there is no indication that you will be working together for a period of time.
As far as I know I don't even have to go on the other commlinks. It's more like a teleconference thing, where everybody subscribes to a utility (run on my commlink I assume, as it's the best one) and they simply hear what the other say. I use it almost every day in RL at work (with a normal phone of course) and it's just a number to call and a password to enter and you're in (I can provide them with the password to access the utility, it won't let them access anything else). I was planning on setting this up anyway, just in case during our guard duty a couple of people were in a different room (or patrolling outside of a warehouse), so we can still talk to them easily. Give me five minutes and it's set-up (I even assume that I still have something like that on my commlink from my smuggling days as they would also use a thing like that).
It doesn't have to be super encrypted, that's indeed something to set-up later (with encryption keys changing at irregular intervals and stuff like that).
As for me going on the teleconferencing utility of the security people, if they say no, it's no. I'm not going to hack them (at laest not now, maybe later to review the logs and see why they weren't there).