I'm not quite sure I understand the question, but I'll give it a shot.
You have to have a single device to provide access for your wireless net to
the internet. That device is a bottleneck for the wireless traffic, no
matter where it lives. It could be an access point, it could be an ordinary
wireless station in an ad-hoc network, it doesn't matter - it's half-duplex
and subject to collision retry. Think of the wireless network as an
old-fashioned shared Ethernet cable, or a half-duplex 10BaseT hub.
This is true whether the access point is separate, integrated into a 2-in-1
ap+router, or integrated into a 3-in-1 ap+router+modem. The only thing you
gain by putting the modem in the router is one less 802.3 cable, but if the
router and modem support full-duplex 100BaseT that cable wouldn't affect
your throughput. The bottleneck is still the wireless node used to funnel
the traffic.
If you go for 3-in-1, then you're stuck with the modem. If you choose cable,
and later switch to DSL, it won't work. If you just get ap+router, you only
need to replace the modem.
"Ivar Boer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello to you all,
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> Can someone tell me if an access point has the advantages of an switch
when
> using it to share an internet connection by connecting it to a seperate
> fixed router (+ switch)/modem?
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> Iam asking this because all the signals of the transceivers need to go
> through the access point to reach the internet.
> Or is it maybe better to use a 3 in 1 device (modem/router and access
point
> + switch in 1 box.
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> Thanks!
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> Ivar
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