Talk:Wireless access point

message: As can be read here: Comparison_of_open-source_wireless_drivers#Driver_capabilities the drivers of most WNICs can operate in multiple wireless modes. Thus, a wireless access point (this article here) is any WNIC, whether a stand-alone Wireless Home Router that contains such on the PCB or in the SoC or a PCI-WLAN-Card, that is manually set to work in the AP mode or Master Mode or whatever you wanna call it. Echinacin35 (talk) 19:55, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reorganize the entire WLAN lemmata 

message: Left the page alone for 6 months to allow time for popular edits.  I will resume editing this page through the month of December to tighten the flow of information, remove ambiguity and better reference source material for many of the claims made throughout the page (it is sorely lacking, as I'm sure you'll agree).  During the course of that editing, some sections will be shuffled to improve the flow of the article.  This will appear on the "diff" as a MAJOR overhaul of the page.  I assure you I will be leaving the VAST majority of the content alone.  These will be structural edits, to benefit the ease and clarity of reading for the audience.  Please contact me at mzweil -@- yahoo.com if you have a personal interest in this page, or would like to collaborate on these edits in December.  Thanks! Mtzweil (talk) 13:32, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Significant Revisions Planned Through December of 2008 

message: Several WAPs can link together to form a larger network that allows "roaming"
Isn't "handoff" (or "handover") a more appropriate term for that sentence?
Just look at the Wikipedia definitions of those terms... It looks that what's really happening is a handoff and not an roaming.
:For the purposes of WAP discussion, handoff and roaming have become functionally equivalent.  To illustrate: "Handoff" is describe under Jwire's glassary of Wireless terminology as:
"handoff: The act of switching coverage responsibility from one base station to another. It usually refers to what happens when a wireless phone user moves from one cell to another."  Roaming, is described on the same site as: 
"roaming: The act of seamlessly moving your wireless connection from one access point to another as you walk around. To enable roaming between access points, connect them to the same wired Ethernet network, give them the same network name, and set them to use different, non-overlapping channels (1, 6, and 11)."  See: http://www.jiwire.com/glossary.htm?id=80 for more information.
-mtzweil 4 June 2008
--Dhcpy (talk) 03:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Roaming 

message: The security concerns are highlighted both in this article and in the Wireless LAN article.  I suggest moving it out to a separate article. tobixen 03:25, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reorganization suggestions 

message: Article has an introduction, which is a bit of poor quality and then jumps into WAP applications and network issues and limitations and costs etc. Obviously contributed by many who are experts but also oblivious to the fact that WAP was never defined and described here. Keeping in mind these pages are for general public, can someone brifly but explicitly describe what a WAP actually is?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.165.246.10 (talk) 13:16, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  So what is WAP? 

message: This article, by far, does not clearly define a wireless access point!
I took the time to reword the first sentence or paragraph into something more basic and easily comprehensible:
"A wireless access point (or commonly abbreviated as WAP or AP) is a computer networking hardware device for providing, distributing and broadcasting wireless access to other wireless clients. An access point is usually connected to a network router (or network switch) using an Ethernet cable.  Nowadays, access point features are also commonly provided by network routers.  Wireless computer networking is commonly referred to as 802.11 wireless, in an effort to distinguish from other wireless cellular/mobile phone services or wireless telephone products."
Might be best to reference the following Internet page, as DD-WRT provides an excellent diagram explaining the main purpose of an access point:
https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Access_Point
If I'm not mistaken, do not even include the term "hotspot", or rather link to the Hotspot Wikipedia article rather than attempting to incorrectly define the hotspot term here.  If I'm not mistaken, a "hotspot" is just general slang terminology with the "hotspot" service using the same hardware.  The hotspot terminology seems more of a commercial advertising method for simplifying networking services.
A lot more corrections are likely required elsewhere, but all I have time for!  --roger (talk) 19:04, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Completely agree. Like many people, I came here to find out what an access point is and instead got a load of irrelevant technobabble. Simplify, simplify, and simplify again.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.239.62.21 (talk) 13:06, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  So what exactly is an Access Point?? 

message: donot let everyone edit it  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.134.211.230 (talk) 16:16, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  idiot 

message: There are multiple complaints on this Talk page, some since 2012 - that is 12 years ago - that the article does not explain what a wireless access point is. The article does not even have a section on what it is, just a two sentence section labeled Connections.  And yet blathering jargon-ridden specialized sections have been added on "Limitations" and "Security". 
Wikipedia is full of technically-educated editors who can explain what an access point is.  Let's fix this. --ChetvornoTALK 01:42, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Really bad article - c'mon