Access point ethernet port only output??

[DanWhite]

Hello, I've been told that this AP's ethernet port its only "output" meaning its only use is to connect the AP to the PC via cable and that I can't connect the AP to the main router using the ethernet port, does such thing exist?? is this true?? how do I know when an AP's ethernet port isn't only "output" then

[abit-sean]

That's because this device is an WIFI extender and not an AP. What are you trying to achieve?

[mr fobs]

I think typically if it has one ethernet port it will be output, but if it has two, one is capable of input and one is output for switches and PCs.

At that point though its not an extender, but a router.

[DanWhite]

3 minutes ago, abit-sean said:

That's because this device is an WIFI extender and not an AP. What are you trying to achieve?

There's a site where it has that product multiple times listed as "access point" thats why I got confused

[Alex Atkin UK]

4 hours ago, mr fobs said:

I think typically if it has one ethernet port it will be output, but if it has two, one is capable of input and one is output for switches and PCs.

At that point though its not an extender, but a router.

A router by definition has to "route" packets between different networks.  Access Points are generally bridges, in that they merely look at which MAC addresses packets are destined for and blindly send them onwards across the right port (or WiFi), just as a switch does.

You can have a combination of the two things, but the fact an Access Point has more than one ethernet port does not make it a router.  WiFi effectively is just a wireless switch with each client a port on that switch.