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Term | Definition |
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ARPANET | Advanced research projects agency network |
DSL | digital subscriber line |
IP | Internet Protocol |
ISDN | Integrated Service Digital Network |
LAN | Local Area Network |
NetBEUI | Netbios Extended User Interface |
NIC | Network Interface Card |
OSI | Open System Intercommunication |
POTS | Plain Old Telephone System |
SSID | Service Set Idenifier |
TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
WAN | Wide area network |
WEP | Wired equivalent Privacy |
WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network |
WPA | Wifi Protocol acces |
What is a hot spot? | a hot spot is a place where you can connect to the internet |
Name two types of unguided media? | Infrared, radio waves |
What are the three types of guided media? | Coaxial Cable, Fiber Optic, Cooper Twisted Pair |
What is a computer network? | A connection of two or more communicating devices that are connected to form a system. |
What is the purpose of a network? | The purpose of a network is to share resources, and collaborate. |
What are four ways to access the internet? | POTS, DSL, ISDN, Satellite |
Explain what a frame is? | a frame is when nodes communicate in short messages called frames, which variable sized chunks of info |
What does a segment refer to? | IT REFERS TO A SIGNAL SHARED MEDIUM AS AN ETHERNET SEGMENT |
What is a node? | device that attach to that segments are stations or nodes |
How many octets are in a IP Adress | 4 octets |
how many binary numbers in each octet? | 8 bits |
how many total binary numbers | 255 |
how many possible IP address are there | 4.3 billion possibilities |
How many adress in the new IPv6 | 2 to the 128, 128 binary # total |