
G. Glossary of Terms
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| 802.11g | An IEEE standard for wireless local area networks. It | 
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 | offers transmissions speeds at up to 54 Mbps in the 2.4- | 
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| Access point | It is the hardware interface between a wireless LAN | 
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 | and a wired LAN. The access point attaches to the | 
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 | wired LAN through an Ethernet connection. | 
| Applet | Applets are small Java programs that can be embedded | 
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 | in an HTML page. The rule at the moment is that an | 
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 | applet can only make an Internet connection to the | 
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 | computer form that the applet was sent. | 
| ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange, | 
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 | it is the standard method for encoding characters as 8- | 
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 | bit sequences of binary numbers, allowing a maximum | 
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 | of 256 characters. | 
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