User's Manual

Glossary

(MHz) is one Million-Hertz. One gigahertz (GHz) is one Billion-Hertz. The

standard U.S. electrical power frequency is 60 Hz, the AM broadcast radio

frequency band is 0.55–1.6 MHz, the FM broadcast radio frequency band is

88–108 MHz, and wireless 802.11 LANs operate at 2.4GHz.

SSID Service Set ID. A group name shared by every member of a wireless network.

Only client PCs with the same SSID are allowed to establish a connection.

Subnet Mask A value that defines whether your computer communicates only within your LAN

or communicates outside of your LAN, where it is routed out to the rest of the

Internet. A Subnet Mask that has the same first three components (for example,

255.255.255.0) is the routing pattern for a Class C address.

TCP Transmission Control Protocol. The standard transport level protocol that

provides the full duplex, stream service on which many applications’ protocols

depend. TCP allows a process on one machine to send a stream of data to a

process on another. Software implementing TCP usually resides in the operating

system and uses the IP to transmit information across the network.

WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy. The optional cryptographic confidentiality algorithm

specified by 802.11 used to provide data confidentiality that is subjectively

equivalent to the confidentiality of a wired LAN medium that does not employ

cryptographic techniques to enhance privacy.