Chapter 9. INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING WI-FI ACCESS POINTS
Many Wi-Fi users never install or maintain an access point—they connect to public hot spots in coffee shops and libraries and maybe in the workplace, where there's a network manager to worry about providing a signal to their computers. But if you want to use Wi-Fi in your own small business or home network, you'll have to know something about access points.
An access point, or base station, in a wireless network is the central transmitter and receiver that exchanges data by radio with individual computers and other network clients. Multiple access points can increase the size of the area served ...
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