IOGear GWU513 user manual Glossary

Glossary

IEEE – IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is the world’s largest technical professional society and is consisted of more than 366,000 members in approxi- mately 150 countries. As a leading authority on areas ranging from for computer engineering, biomedical technology and telecommunications, IEEE endeavours to set more than 800 active consensus standards till now and publish 30 percent of the world’s literature in electrical engineering, computers and control technology.

Infrastructure Network – Infrastructure network allows you to communicate with wired LAN via an access point. Unlike Ad-hoc network that all wireless-equipped stations within the range may directly communicate with each other, clients of Infrastructure network can only transmit and receive data through the use of a central access point. The associated access point also provides communication with the wired network.

MAC Address – The MAC (Media Access Control) address is the serial number of your Network Interface card. It has been burnt into the chip and could not be changed. MAC address is thus unique. While a computer on the network is transferring data, its MAC address is also conveyed and attached to be part of the header of the data packets.

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