- Wireless bridge – APs communicate only with each other and don’t allow wireless clients to connect
- Wireless repeater – APs communicate with each other and allow wireless clients to connect
- Wireless access point – connect wired network to wireless network
Differences Between Wireless Bridge and Wireless Repeater
- Wireless Bridge
- connects two different protocol types
- to join Multiple networks
- Wireless Repeater
- relays the same protocol type
- to increase the range of a single wireless LAN by extending the same wireless signal
Diagram of a wireless network using wireless bridge link to connect secondary network to primary network
