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150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter
 
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Spectrum (FHSS). 
SSID - A  Service  Set  Identification is a thirty-two character (maximum) alphanumeric key 
identifying a wireless local area network. For the wireless devices in a network to communicate 
with each other, all devices must be configured with the same SSID. This is typically the 
configuration parameter for a wireless PC card. It corresponds to the ESSID in the wireless 
Access Point and to the wireless network name.   
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) - A data privacy mechanism based on a 64-bit or 128-bit shared 
key algorithm, as described in the IEEE 802.11 standard.   
Wi-Fi - A trade name for the 802.11b wireless networking standard, given by the Wireless 
Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA, see http://www.wi-fi.net), an industry standards group 
promoting interoperability among 802.11b devices. 
WLAN  (Wireless  Local  Area  Network) - A group of computers and associated devices 
communicate with each other wirelessly, which network serving users are limited in a local area. 
WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) - A wireless security protocol use TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity 
Protocol) encryption, which can be used in conjunction with a RADIUS server.