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The first SoftAP software was shipped by Ralink with their Wi-Fi cards for Windows XP. It enabled a Wi-Fi card to act as a wireless access point. While a card was acting as a wireless access point, it could not continue to stay connected as a client, so any Internet access had to come from another device, such as an Ethernet device.
OpenBTS (Open Base Transceiver Station) is a software-based GSM access point, allowing standard GSM-compatible mobile phones to be used as SIP endpoints in Voice over IP (VoIP) networks. OpenBTS is open-source software developed and maintained by Range Networks .
One popular way to access amateur-only frequencies is to modify an off-the-shelf access point with custom firmware. This custom firmware is freely available on the Internet from projects such as DD-WRT and OpenWrt. The AREDN Project supports off-the-shelf firmware that supports Part-97-only frequencies on Ubiquiti and TP-Link hardware. [8]
OpenAP holds a significant place in the history of open-source Linux distributions for wireless access points. OpenAP was one of the early open-source Linux distributions designed aiming to replace the factory firmware on a range of IEEE 802.11b wireless access points, specifically those based on the Eumitcom WL11000SA-N board.
In computer networking, a wireless access point (WAP) (also just access point (AP)) is a networking hardware device that allows other Wi-Fi devices to connect to a wired network or wireless network. As a standalone device, the AP may have a wired or wireless connection to a switch or router , but in a wireless router it can also be an integral ...
A "soft access point" (soft AP) can be set up on a Wi-Fi adapter using for example Windows' virtual Wi-Fi or Intel's My WiFi. This makes it possible, without the need of a physical Wi-Fi router, to share the wired network access of one computer with wireless clients connected to that soft AP.
Wi-Fi client devices typically connect to the access point that can provide the strongest signal within that service set. [109] Increasing the number of Wi-Fi access points for a network provides redundancy, better range, support for fast handover, and increased overall network capacity by using more channels or by defining smaller cells.
Some TP-Link, Xiaomi, ZyXEL and D-Link router firmwares are derived from OpenWrt [81] [82] FreeWRT was a Linux distribution that was used in embedded systems such as WLAN devices from Linksys and Asus. Not related to a project (with same name) based on Sveasoft firmware. [citation needed]