Olitec RW400G - Manual (Page 65)

¾ Domain Name - A descriptive name for an address or group of addresses on the
Internet.
¾ DoS (Denial of Service) - A hacker attack designed to prevent your computer or
network from operating or communicating.
¾ DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) - A technology that allows data to be sent or received
over existing traditional phone lines.
¾ ISP (Internet Service Provider) - A company that provides access to the Internet.
¾ MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) - The size in bytes of the largest packet that
can be transmitted.
¾ NAT (Network Address Translation) - NAT technology translates IP addresses of a
local area network to a different IP address for the Internet.
¾ PPPoE (Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet) - PPPoE is a protocol for connecting
remote hosts to the Internet over an always-on connection by simulating a dial-up
connection.
¾ SSID - A Service Set Identification is a thirty-two character (maximum) alphanumeric
key identifying a wireless local area network. For the wireless devices in a network to
communicate with each other, all devices must be configured with the same SSID.
This is typically the configuration parameter for a wireless PC card. It corresponds to
the ESSID in the wireless Access Point and to the wireless network name.
¾ WEP
(Wired Equivalent Privacy) - A data privacy mechanism based on a 64-bit or
128-bit or 152-bit shared key algorithm, as described in the IEEE 802.11 standard.
¾ Wi-Fi - A trade name for the 802.11b wireless networking standard, given by the
Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA, see http://www.wi-fi.net), an
industry standards group promoting interoperability among 802.11b devices.
¾ WLAN
(Wireless Local Area Network) - A group of computers and associated
devices communicate with each other wirelessly, which network serving users are
limited in a local area.
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