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An access point is used to connect a wired network to a wireless one. Thus it is connected to a router by a wired connection and transmits a WiFi signal to connect other wireless devices:

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Station

A station is a device that has access to WiFi and allows transmission and reception of data. Both the ends of data sharing is called as a station. The station is where data starts while transmission and data reach while receiving:

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Router

router works at the network layer of the OSI layers. Thereby router ensures machine-to-machine transfer of data packets between source and destination:

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The router is used to read the packet’s header and direct it to the destination. As the name implies, it decides the best route for transmission based on a continuously updating routing table it possesses.

Bridge

A bridge works at the data link layer of the OSI layers. Therefore it enables the node-to-node transfer of data between source and destination. Besides acts as the connecting center of separate networks into one network:

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