The present invention relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, and in particular, to a wireless local area network (WLAN) user-side device and an information processing method, to resolve a problem that user equipment (UE) cannot accurately select a WLAN network because current network information of a WLAN is not complete. Embodiments of the present invention provide a WLAN user-side device, including: a first processing module, configured to receive network class information of a WLAN sent by a WLAN network-side device, and a second processing module, configured to determine, according to the network class information received by the first processing module, a manner of using the WLAN by UE corresponding to the user-side device. Because the user-side device obtains the network class information of the WLAN, the user-side device can determine, according to the network class information of the WLAN, the manner of using the WLAN by the UE.