NETGEAR DG814 DSL manual Glossary

Glossary

10BASE-T	IEEE 802.3 specification for 10 Mbps Ethernet over twisted pair wiring.
100BASE-Tx	IEEE 802.3 specification for 100 Mbps Ethernet over twisted pair wiring.
ADSL	See Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
Asymmetric Digital	A technology for sending data over regular telephone lines. ADSL allows data
Subscriber Line	rates up to 8 Mbps downstream and 640 Kbps upstream.
Denial of Service	A hacker attack designed to prevent your computer or network from operating
attack	or communicating.
DHCP	See Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
DNS	See Domain Name Server.
Domain Name	A descriptive name for an address or group of addresses on the Internet.
	Domain names are of the form of a registered entity name plus one of a
	number of predefined top level suffixes such as .com, .edu, .uk, etc. For
	example, in the address mail.NETGEAR.com, mail is a server name and
	NETGEAR.com is the domain.
Domain Name Server	A Domain Name Server (DNS) resolves descriptive names of network
	resources (such as www.NETGEAR.com) to numeric IP addresses.
DSLAM	DSL Access Multiplexor. The piece of equipment at the telephone company
	central office that provides the ADSL signal.
Dynamic Host	DHCP. An Ethernet protocol specifying how a centralized DHCP server can
Configuration	assign network configuration information to multiple DHCP clients. The
Protocol	assigned information includes IP addresses, DNS addresses, and gateway
	(router) addresses.
IP	See Internet Protocol.
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