Sorry about my english, but from my understanding a WAP is just to provide wifi to computers and devices. But why people say it’s to connect to a wire network? this is something I don’t get
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I think now that ISP’s provide ‘Wifi’ people kind of don’t understand what it is anymore or what they’re actually paying for
Wifi is always just a wireless connection to the wired network you got from your ISP, its your phone/laptop connecting to the box your internet provider provides you and sits in your house and is wired into the internet, wifi just replaces having to run a cable from the box in your house to a laptop
back in the early days the ISP would give you a modem which bring the internet into your home and then you’d buy your own wifi router so you could connect wirelessly to that modem instead of having to plug a wire into the modem, now its just one box that is both a modem and wireless
you don’t necessarily need to use the ISP’s wifi box you can buy and use your own but in the end it needs to hook up to something else that has access to the internet
this is different from internet over cell phones which connect to the cell tower and get wireless internet that way, you don’t need anything else in your house, the cell signal itself connects to the internet through the cell tower
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