From the course: Networking Foundations: Networking Basics
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Wireless access points
From the course: Networking Foundations: Networking Basics
Wireless access points
- This wireless router might be similar to what you have in your home. Your internet service provider brings in an internet connection into your house, maybe over a cable TV connection, maybe over gig fiber, maybe DSL, or some other way, but that internet connection, it plugs into the back of this wireless router and the wireless devices in your home, they communicate, using radio waves, with this wireless router, and that's how they get out to the internet. However, in larger environments, this single wireless router, it's not going to do the job. It's coverage area is way too limited, and it can only accommodate so many connections. In cases where we need more widespread coverage, we can install multiple wireless access points, or APs for short. This is a wireless access point and it doesn't have a connection on the back labeled internet like our wireless routers do. Instead, it has a connection where we can plug a cable…
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