Wireless AP: What Is It and How To Configure It?

WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS ALWAYS THESE DAYS:

IN ANY BIG CITY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IT WAS FREE TO WALK IN BLOCK WITHOUT ANY ONE OR TWO ACCESS POINTS.

We know, that the access point allows us to connect to the Internet, but how exactly it is doing, what are their advantages and disadvantages, and how you can adjust the point of access at home? 

These and other questions are the topics of this article.

What is a wireless access point?

Wireless access point typically called a point of access (AP),

a network device, which supplies easy access to the Internet by the wireless network. Most access points are very similar to routers. So, modern routers can usually function as access points. Internet service providers usually offer their customers a router with functional ability in terms of access, to simplify setup.

When would they have given them to the router without function in terms of access, clients must have to connect a dedicated point of access to the router, to use wireless access to the Internet, it could be very uncomfortable and looked out of the scope of the experience of the majority of domestic users.

Point wireless access covers the region with signal WIFI, a region in which one can connect to the Internet by the wireless network, is called a hot spot.

Before the emergence of networks, Wi-Fi was difficult to connect new devices to the Internet because every new device has had to be connected to a wire to a router, connected to the Internet. Of course, students or office workers rarely wore their own electronic devices, so the situation was not so bleak, like today, if you would have had not been points of wireless access.

After the explosion of the market of smartphones fast and ubiquitous access to the Internet has become the norm, how and in terms of access the WIFI. Most people run their own point of access WIFI at home, but not many know, how to achieve the best level of the signal and the maximum possible speed of loading and unloading.

Enough Does one point of access the WIFI?

Like you, most likely, has repeatedly faced from the first hand, the signal WIFI has a limited range of action and is dependent on the various obstacles, such as a wall, and interference, such as a network of WIFI to your neighbour.

To perfect the home wireless network, the first thing you must determine, where the signal is thus weak. Just try to remember all the places in your home, where the Internet leads to eternity and where online video is constantly buffered. To get rid of these areas of weak signal, you need to change the location of a wireless point of access, to cover the whole house uniformly strong signal of the WIFI.

But the random movement of the point of access Wi-Fi can do everything much worse. Here is where come the tools for analysis and visualization of the WIFI, such as the Net Spot. With Net Spot, you can quickly create a visual map of your home network WIFI and see, where the signal is very strong and where it is most weak.

You can find out, that half of your home closer to the router is covered with a very strong signal, and the other half leaves much to be desired. In this case, the solution simple: move the point of access in the centre of your home, to ensure uniform coverage.

 

In some cases, you can find, that your point of access WIFI is not enough strong, to reach all parts of your home, where would you not been. Solution? Either buy a new access point or install a WIFI amplifier. Some of the best wireless points of access to the market quite strong, to cover even a large apartment or a small house, and they are loaded with useful other functions.

 

Amplifiers of the WIFI, with the other hand, can quickly expand the radius of action of any point wireless access, but they create another network, which does not bring you well if you do not switch to it manually. In both cases, the Net Spot can help you check, carried out whether you are newly acquired point of access or booster. 

How to set up a WIFI access point?

Each procedure for setting up a wireless access point should emphasize security above all. When the wireless point of access is connected to the physical network, which bases its security on control of physical access and trust to all users in a local area network, any, located in the zone of action of a wireless point of access, can connect to the network and potentially cause damage.

 

The primary security solution for a WIFI access point is encryption. Modern access points support several encryption mechanisms, with WPA2 being the most reliable. Some older access points only support the WEP encryption scheme, which turned out to be insufficiently protected from modern attacks.

 

Always choose a password that is hard to guess. Better all, if you save the password with itself and create a separate guest wireless network with a simple password, which you can easily give out to friends and guests, who come to visit.

 

In addition to safety, you also want to draw attention to the channel, on which the broadcast your wireless network. Mode detection Net Spot allows you to collect all the details about surrounding wireless networks and present collected data in the form of an interactive table, which allows seeing, which wireless channels are the most downloaded. If you can, you switch to the channel, which is not seeing the big traffic, to enjoy a fast speed loading and unloading, and the best time of the response.

 

Finally, avoid placing a wireless point of access near the electronic devices, which can she stop, and always use the tool wireless analysis, such as the Net Spot, to perfect coverage.

 

With a suitable tool for work and basic knowledge about that does, you can adjust the point of access Wi-Fi, as well as professional techniques and solve most network problems, with which you can meet.