Difference Between Router and Access Point

14 April 2011

In making a wireless network / wireless network yourself, you will always wonder what the difference between router and access point. Because some tasks and functions, they appear to overlap at first sight. They pick the similarities in providing access to the internet.

What Router Do?
The router is like a server, because it performs the function of the server. Router directs data and commands that come from different places in the network towards their destination. This sets the communication of real-time network.
A router can also act as a DHCP server dynamically assign IP addresses to each computer every time they boot up. A router can also perform port forwarding.
The router connects multiple computers to the internet. The router also has an IP address where the other computers on the internet can see.

What Access Point do?
Access Point does not perform all the functions of a router. Access Point is to act as a regulator of the data traffic, allowing many clients to connect to each other through the network. Access Point also has an IP address that other computers on the internet can see.
Access Point has some of the same security features such as routers, but they will not perform its function as a server.

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1 comment:

Thank you very much for explaining the difference between router and access point.
I really didn't know that.

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