H Glossary of Terms
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10BASE-T
100BASE-TX
802.11g
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Access point
Applet
ASCII
10BASE-T is Ethernet over UTP Category III,IV, or V
unshielded twisted-pair media.
The
two-pair
100BASE-T is called 100BASE-TX.
An IEEE standard for wireless local area networks. It
offers transmissions speeds at up to 54 Mbps in the 2.4-
GHz band.
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.
Applets are small Java (JRE) 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.
American Standard Code For Information Interchange,
it is the standard method for encoding characters as 8-
bit sequences of binary numbers, allowing a maximum
of 256 characters.
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