User's Guide

• GSM Global System for Mobile Communications. A digital cellular phone tech-

nology that is the predominant system in Europe, but is also used around the

world. Operating in the 900MHz and 1.8GHz bands in Europe and the 1.9GHz

PCS band in the US.

• HSDPA High Speed Down-link Packet Access. An enhancement to 3G technol-

ogy that increases the down-link speed.

• HSUPA High Speed Up-link Packet Access. An enhancement to 3G technology

that increases the up-link speed.

• HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol is a service protocol to transmit documents

between servers or from a server to a client. Is mainly used on the Internet, or

the World Wide Web.

• IP address The IP address identiﬁes every device connected to the Internet

through an address that is unique.

• LAN Local Area Network. Local computer connection that has few or no con-

nections to the outside world.

• MAC address Media Access Control (MAC) address. A 48-bit identiﬁcation

number of a network card that generally cannot be changed. Shown as a

hexadecimal number.

• NAT Network Address Translation (NAT). Method to convert (mostly private)

IP addresses of a network to other (mostly public) IP addresses of another

network.

• Network adapter Another word for Network card. The network card is the

device that establishes the connection between the network (wireless or wired)

and the computer

• Network name See ‘SSID’, below.

• Pass-phrase A pass-phrase is used as an encryption password and is gener-

ally longer than an ordinary password and may contain letters and numbers.

• Port Describes an interface between the operating system, applications and

the Internet.

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