Glossary

Internet

The Internet is a wide-area network (WAN) linking several million users around the world. A number of Protocols have been created for exchanging data, and these are known collectively under the name TCP/IP. All participants on the Internet can be identified by an IP address. Servers are addressed by Domain names (e.g. gigaset.com). Domain names are assigned to IP addresses by the Domain Name Service (DNS).

Among the most important Internet services are:

uelectronic mail (email)

uthe World Wide Web (WWW) u file transfer (FTP)

u discussion forums (Usenet / Newsgroups)

Internet Provider

An Internet provider (Internet Service Provider) offers access to the Internet for a fee.

IP

Internet protocol

The IP Protocol is one of the TCP/IP protocols. It is responsible for addressing parties in a network using IP addresses, and routes data from the sender to the recipient. It decides the paths along which the data packets travel from the sender to the recipient in a complex network (routing).

IP address

An IP address is a network-wide unique address for a network component in a network based on the TCP/IP protocol (e.g. in a local area network (LAN) or on the Internet). The IP address has four parts (values from 0 to 255) separated by periods (e.g. 192.168.1.1). The IP address consists of the network address and the PC address. Depending on the Subnet mask, one, two or three parts form the network address, the remainder the PC address. You can find out the IP address of your PC by entering ipconfig in the command prompt.

IP addresses can be assigned manually (see Static IP address) or automatically (see Dynamic IP address).

On the Internet, Domain names are normally used instead of IP addresses. DNS is responsible for assigning domain names to IP addresses.

The Gigaset SE366 WLAN has a Private IP address and a Public IP address.

IP pool range

The Gigaset SE366 WLAN's IP address pool defines a range of IP addresses that the router's DHCP server can use to assign Dynamic IP addresses.

ISP

Internet Service Provider, see Internet Provider

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