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I Glossary of Terms
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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.
802.11g
An IEEE standard for wireless local area networks. It
offers transmissions speeds at up to 54 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 that 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-
b
it sequences of binary numbers, allowing a maximum
of 256 characters.