Philips SL50i - Manual (Page 20)

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Chapter 7 - Glossary
Access Point See ‘Wireless Base Station’
Ad-Hoc Network A direct network connection between two devices (two computers, or a PC and the SL50i).
Base Station See ‘Wireless Base Station’
Broadband The Internet bandwidth determines the speed of your Internet connection. Broadband Internet
is everything above 256 kbps.
Codec A software format for compressing and de-compressing media.
DHCP If a network has a central host computer, Wireless Base Station or router that acts as a
DHCP server, this server allocates IP addresses, netmasks, and the gateway address to all
DHCP client computers and devices in the network automatically.
Ethernet The most popular type of wired home network.
Firewall A firewall acts as a barrier that helps protect your network from intruders from the Internet.
The firewall specifies what information can be communicated from the computers on your
network to the Internet, and from the Internet to the computers on your network.
Gateway The computer or network device that provides access to the Internet.
Infrastructure network A network connection between two or more devices (computers, or PCs and the SL50i)
with a central network host (router, base station or PC). Also see ‘Wireless Base Station’.
MAC address The unique 12-character hardware address of the (wireless) network adapter.
Sometimes used for identifying network hardware.
NAT (network address translation) A security feature implemented in most Internet gateway routers to keep your home network
safe from intrusions from the Internet.
Router See ‘wireless base station’
Peer-to-peer network See ‘ad-hoc network’
Philips Media Manager The software you need to install and have active on your computer to be able to use PC Link
for sending music files from the PC to the SL50i.
Proxy address The address of an intermediate computer, provided to you by your Internet Service Provider.
Sometimes needed for accessing the Internet.
SSID Service Set Identifier.The wireless network name (this is not the same as your computer
network name).
Streaming Playing media content from the Internet while it is downloading is called 'streaming'.
Streamium The Philips range of Internet enabled products.
WEP / WPA Designate a type of wireless encryption.
wireless base station (wireless router) A hardware device that interconnects your (wireless) home network to the Internet.
Wireless USB adapter (wireless network adapter) A hardware device that enables your PC for wireless transmission.