96 Home Station ADSL ADB P.DG A4001N
Auto-negotiation
Some devices in the range support auto-negotiation. Auto-negotiation is where two devices sharing a link, auto-
matically configure to use the best common speed. The order of preference (best first) is: 100BASE-TX full duplex,
100BASE-TX half duplex, 10BASE-T full duplex, and 10BASE-T half duplex. Auto-negotiation is defined in the IEEE
802.3 standard for Ethernet and is an operation that takes place in a few milliseconds.
Bandwidth
The information capacity, measured in bits per second, that a channel can transmit. The bandwidth of Ethernet is
10 Mbps, the bandwidth of Fast Ethernet is 100 Mbps. The bandwidth for 802.11b wireless is 11Mbps.
Category 5 Cables
One of five grades of Twisted Pair (TP) cabling defined by the EIA/TIA-586 standard. Category 5 can be used in
Ethernet (10BASE-T) and Fast Ethernet networks (100BASE-TX) and can transmit data up to speeds of 100 Mbps.
Category 5 cabling is better to use for network cabling than Category 3, because it supports both Ethernet (10
Mbps) and Fast Ethernet (100 Mbps) speeds.
Channel
Similar to any radio device, the Wireless Cable/DSL router allows you to choose different radio channels in the
wireless spectrum. A channel is a particular frequency within the 2.4GHz spectrum within which the Router oper-
ates.
Client
The term used to described the desktop PC that is connected to your network.
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. This protocol automatically assigns an IP address for every computer on
your network. Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 contain software that assigns IP addresses to work-
stations on a network. These assignments are made by the DHCP server software that runs on Windows NT Server,
and Windows 95 and Windows 98 will call the server to obtain the address. Windows 98 will allocate itself an ad-
dress if no DHCP server can be found.
DMZ
DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) is an area outside the firewall, to let remote users to have access to items on your net-
work (Web site, FTP download and upload area, etc.).
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