Originally Posted by Always Flyin
I just bought a D-Link DWL-G730AP travel router. Very sweet and very small. Can run off AC or a USB port.
It has three modes, two of which are router or access point. They both seem to do the same thing. What is the difference?
I just bought one too. What a neat little toy!
Based on the diagrams that D-Link provides, it looks to me like the difference is that you set it as a router when it's directly connected to a modem, and as an access point when it's connected to a network that already has a router in it. I see from the manual that in this mode the default for DHCP is disabled--so the DHCP is being handled by the network's router. But I haven't tried it out yet in that manner. And I don't understand why there's an option to enable DHCP in this mode; it seems to me that AP mode with DHCP enabled is equivalent to router mode.