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LOSSARY
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 3 Cables
One of five grades of Twisted Pair (TP) cabling defined by the EIA/TIA-586 
standard. Category 3 is voice grade cable and can only be used in 
Ethernet networks (10BASE-T) to transmit data at speeds of up to 10 
Mbps. 
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 OfficeConnect Wireless Cable/DSL 
gateway 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 Gateway operates.
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 workstations 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 address if no DHCP server can be found.
DNS Server Address
DNS stands for Domain Name System, which allows Internet host 
computers to have a domain name (such as 3com.com) and one or more 
IP addresses (such as 192.34.45.8). A DNS server keeps a database of 
host computers and their respective domain names and IP addresses, so 
that when a domain name is requested (as in typing “3com.com” into