Netgear DG834G Manual Do Utilizador

Glossary

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IEEE 802.3 specification for 10 Mbps Ethernet over twisted pair wiring.

IEEE 802.3 specification for 100 Mbps Ethernet over twisted pair wiring.

IEEE specification for wireless networking at 11 Mbps using direct-sequence 
spread-spectrum (DSSS) technology and operating in the unlicensed radio 
spectrum at 2.5GHz.

IEEE specification for wireless networking at 54 Mbps using direct-sequence 
spread-spectrum (DSSS) technology and operating in the unlicensed radio 
spectrum at 2.5GHz.

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

A technology for sending data over regular telephone lines. ADSL allows data 
rates up to 8 Mbps downstream and 640 Kbps upstream.

DoS. A hacker attack designed to prevent your computer or network from 
operating or communicating.

 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.

 Domain Name Server.

A descriptive name for an address or group of addresses on the Internet. 
Domain names are of the form of a registered entity name plus one of a 
number of predefined top level suffixes such as .com, .edu, .uk, etc. For 
example, in the address mail.NETGEAR.com, mail is a server name and 
NETGEAR.com is the domain.

A Domain Name Server (DNS) resolves descriptive names of network 
resources (such as www.NETGEAR.com) to numeric IP addresses.

DSL Access Multiplexor. The piece of equipment at the telephone company 
central office that provides the ADSL signal.

DHCP. An Ethernet protocol specifying how a centralized DHCP server can 
assign network configuration information to multiple DHCP clients. The 
assigned information includes IP addresses, DNS addresses, and gateway 
(router) addresses.