Hughes DW6000 manual Glossary

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Signal quality factor (SQF) - an integer value from 0-99 that indicates the strength of the received satellite signal relative to noise.

Subnet mask - a 32-bit value that is used to distinguish the network ID from the host ID in an arbitrary IP address. Each host on a network requires a subnet mask.

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TCP/IP internet protocol suite - the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet.

TCP Acceleration - see PEP.

Transmission control protocol (TCP) - a set of rules (protocol) used along with the Internet Protocol (IP) to send data in the form of message units between computers over the Internet. While IP takes care of handling the actual delivery of the data, TCP takes care of keeping track of the individual units of data (called packets) that a message is divided into for efficient routing through the Internet.

Turbo Page - software that prefetches objects from Web sites you visit to speed up surfing.

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Hughes DW6000 manual Glossary