What is an access point?
Access points can be applied to many different situations; they’re not designed for one specific person or scenario. Of course, depending on your circumstances, you may benefit from a certain type or number of Indoor Access Point to best fit your needs, but they’re pretty versatile, and can work for all kinds of use cases such as smaller, less demanding home network setups to larger scale, intense business networking systems.
There aren’t any specific limits as to how many AP’s you can install at once, so, if you have a very large space you need to cover, access points can be that solution you desperately need.
Outdoor access points differ from indoor access point as they are built to be more robust to withstand the elements, unpredictable temperatures and weather conditions that the outdoors throws their way, however the actual functionality of these outdoor AP’s is almost exactly the same as indoor ones. An example of an outdoor access point is the Draytek VAP918RPD-K Ruggedised outdoor access point. The VAP918RPD is ideal for outdoor applications, due to its IP67 certified enclosure, to protect it from extreme weather conditions. Another outdoor robust weatherproof access point is Aruba’s AP17, made for medium-density small businesses that require high performance in outdoor spaces.
Now that we have established different Wi-Fi standards and how they apply to different Indoor Access Point, it's important to also mention the difference between single and dual frequency access points. As we mentioned in the table above, there are different frequency bands that access points operate on, but what are frequency bands in relation to access points?
When we discuss Wi-Fi frequency bands, we are talking about different ranges of radio wave frequencies that are used to transmit data in a wireless network. The two most popular frequency bands that you have probably heard of are 2.4 GHz and 5GHz. It is worth noting that there are other frequency bands that are utilised for specific purposes too.
