NETGEAR MR814 v3 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.
802.11b	IEEE specification for wireless networking at 11 Mbps using direct-sequence
	spread-spectrum (DSSS) technology and operating in the unlicensed radio
	spectrum at 2.5GHz.
Denial of Service	DoS. A hacker attack designed to prevent your computer or network from
attack	operating 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.
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.
Gateway	A local device, usually a router, that connects hosts on a local network to other
	networks.
IP	See Internet Protocol.
IP Address	A four-byte number uniquely defining each host on the Internet. Ranges of
	addresses are assigned by Internic, an organization formed for this purpose.
	Usually written in dotted-decimal notation with periods separating the bytes
	(for example, 134.177.244.57).
ISP	Internet service provider.
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