Operation Manual

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G Glossary of Terms
NUMBERS
10BASE-T 10BASE-T is Ethernet over UTP Category III,IV, or V
unshielded twisted-pair media.
100BASE-
TX
The two-pair twisted-
media implementation of
100BASE-T is called 100BASE-TX.
802.11b
An IEEE standard for wireless local area networks. It
offers transmissions speeds at up to 11 Mbps in the
2.4-GHz band.
A
Access
point
It is the hardware interface between a wireless LAN
and a wired LAN. The access point attaches to the
wired LAN through an Ethernet connection.
Applet
Applets are small Java programs that can be
embedded in an HTML page. The rule at the moment
is th
at an applet can only make an Internet
connection to the computer form that the applet was
sent.
ASCII
American Standard Code For Information
Interchange, it is the standard method for encoding
characters as 8-
bit sequences of binary numbers,
allowing a maximum of 256 characters.
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol. ARP is a protocol that
resides at the TCP/IP Internet layer that delivers