What's the difference between a Wi-Fi extender and an access point?

Both a WiFi extender and an access point allow your devices to connect to networks that would usually be out of range. However, the way they do this is fundamentally different:

A WiFi extender widens the range of your existing WiFi network by re-broadcasting or ‘repeating’ the signal to a wider area of coverage, allowing your router to cover any dead-spots in your home or office that it couldn’t reach before. Setting up a WiFi Extender is usually pretty simple  as they’re not generating their own WiFi signal - they’re just passing your current network coverage through to a wider area.

 

 

An access point, on the other hand, generates a new wireless local area network in a different location, which means that your devices can connect wirelessly to a wired network via the access point. Access points connect to your router through an Ethernet cable, so  other devices can wirelessly connect to the access point.

 

 

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