Chung Nam Electronics Co. Ltd. WLC301GRSM Manual De Usuario

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louder and thus easier to detect, provided that the receiver knows the parameters of 

the spread-spectrum signal being broadcast. If a receiver is not tuned to the right 

frequency, a spread-spectrum signal looks like background noise. There are two 

main alternatives, Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) and Frequency 

Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS). 

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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. 

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WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) - A data privacy mechanism based on a 64-bit or 

128-bit or 152-bit shared key algorithm, as described in the IEEE 802.11 standard. 

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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. 

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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. 

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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.