What is the difference between SoftAP and Wifi-Direct?

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Published on 2012-09-07T03:37:53Z Indexed on 2012/09/07 3:39 UTC
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I want to buy a Wifi Dongle that, besides acting as an ordinary Wifi client, could change its mode to work as an Access Point too. Should I buy a dongle with SoftAP or should I buy one with Wifi-Direct ? What is the difference between these 2 concepts ? Or is there any difference between them ?

Moreover, what chipset (Realtek, Ralink etc) could provide such a functionality ? Which chipset that has this functionality could work happily in a Debian/Ubuntu 32 bit environment ?

Thanks in advance for any suggestion.

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