I'm trying to expand my home Wi-Fi as the wireless router my ISP provided is quite weak and my house is too big for it, so the Wi-Fi won't get to the living room. I already have some holes in the walls of the rooms between my router and my living room so what I plan on doing is running a Cat6 cable through them into my living room. Then, I'll attach an access point in one end and the router in the other. The thing is, you can use another router as an access point, and I stumbled upon these in amazon:
As you can see, the access point is more expensive and both are supposedly 300mbps N Wi-Fi. I don't understand this, why is it like that? Isn't a wireless router an access point with additional hardware necessary to do routing and forwarding? If it has more hardware, why is it cheaper? Should I just go with the router, provided it does the same function as the AP and is cheaper?
Thanks in advance for your answers.