What is the difference between just an AP and a wireless router?
As described above, an AP is a radio transmitter/receiver that connects to your wired (ethernet) network. This is a way to add wireless to an existing home network. These devices connect to a router so information coming from your broadband connect can be distributed (or routed) to your Axim or other wireless devices via radio waves. Routers typically include switches that will allow you to plug multiple devices into them with ethernet patch cables and also serve as a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server to assign IP numbers (an identifying number for your device) to the connected devices. A wireless router (i.e., a combination router/AP) is both apparatuses in a single unit. If you currently have a broadband connection to a single PC (Figure 3) but want to add connections for your Axim and other equipment, a combination router would be an easier way to do this (Figure 4) and would provide flexibility to expand your network easily, for example, to add another computer atta
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