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10BASE-T
10BASE-T is Ethernet over UTP Category III,IV, or V unshielded
twisted-pair media.
100BASE-TX
The two-pair twisted-media implementation of 100BASE-T is
called 100BASE-TX.
802.11b
An IEEE standard for wireless local area networks. It offers
transmissions speeds at up to 11 Mbps in the 2.4-GHz band.
A
Access point
It is the hardware interface between a wireless LAN and a wired
LAN. The access point attaches to the wired LAN through an
Ethernet connection.
Applet
Applets are small Java programs that can be embedded in an
HTML page. The rule at the moment is that an applet can only
make an Internet connection to the computer form that the applet
was sent.
ASCII
American Standard Code For Information Interchange, it is the
standard method for encoding characters as 8-
it sequences of
binary numbers, allowing a maximum of 256 characters.
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol. ARP is a protocol that resides at the
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