The Computer network term access method can refer to several concepts. It can refer to the way that network devices access the network medium at the physical layer. It can also mean software in an SNA processor that controls the flow of data through a network.

Access method is also a databases term referring to the algorithms used to retrieve, update, insert and delete records on a storage medium.

== See also == Ethernet

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