A Wi-Fi access point, a.k.a wireless access point or access point—often abbreviated as AP or WAP—is a standard Wi-Fi host device that broadcasts and receives Wi-Fi signals to and from multiple Wi-Fi devices simultaneously.
Wi-Fi access points exist as standalone units or embedded inside standard routers to turn them into Wi-Fi routers. This section of the site is about the formers.
Each standard AP adds Wi-Fi of standards it supports (Wi-Fi 5/6/6e,7 or 8) to a (non-Wi-Fi) network or extends the the coverage via a network cable.
At $290, Ubiquiti’s U6 Enterprise is easily one of the best Wi-Fi 6E access points (APs) you can get. As the name suggests, this is a serious business AP designed to work with a UniFi controller, like the UDR or UDM. But it can also work as a standalone access …
