Access points explained

Access points (also known as ‘AP’s) are networking devices that are used to create WLAN (wireless local area network), and as a result, allow other Wi-Fi devices to join the network. Access Points wirelessly connect directly to your broadband router/network switch, which provides the access point with internet connection. Once linked together, the indoor AP can then transmit and receive its own wireless signals between different devices, and as a result, improve the speed and stability of your Wi-Fi. You can think of access points as bridges; they connect different Wi-Fi devices together on the same network, almost like a spiderweb.

It is becoming more and more popular for people to install multiple access points across their properties, (especially larger buildings such as offices), to cover Wi-Fi ‘blackspots’, and to ensure that a stable and speedy wifi connection is maintained over the entire space. Having multiple access points deployed at once is seriously beneficial for businesses. A Wi-Fi ‘blackspot’ is what we call a zone in an area that has Wi-Fi that struggles to connect to the internet. If you’ve ever encountered one, you’ll understand how annoying they are and why access points are so popular!

Access points can be applied to many different situations; they’re not designed for one specific person or scenario. Of course, depending on your circumstances, you may benefit from a certain type or number of access points to best fit your needs, but they’re pretty versatile, and can work for all kinds of use cases such as smaller, less demanding home network setups to larger scale, intense business networking systems. There aren’t any specific limits as to how many indoor AP you can install at once, so, if you have a very large space you need to cover, access points can be that solution you desperately need.

If an access point is single frequency, its anti-interference abilities are typically lower than those that can support multiple different frequencies, because when an indoor AP is dual frequency, it is able to optimise its connections by searching for multiple Wi-Fi signals with a higher transmission rate.