Appendix A Glossary - Foxconn T77H054 User Manual

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The 'Advanced' window offers Firewall and Internet Connection Sharing functions.
Depends on your networking environment, you can select below functions.

Appendix A Glossary

Access Point - An internetworking device that seamlessly connects wired and wireless networks together.
Ad-Hoc - Ad-Hoc is a peer- to-peer wireless network without Access Point. A group of wireless clients
consistent an independent wireless LAN.
Backbone - The core infrastructure of a network, the portion of the network that transports information from one
central location to another central location. The information is then off-loaded onto a local system.
BSS - Stands for "Basic Service Set." An Access Point associated with several wireless stations.
ESS - Stands for "Extended Service Set." More than one BSS can be configured as an Extended Service Set.
An ESS is basically a roaming domain.
Ethernet - A popular local area data communications network, originally developed by Xerox Corp., which
accepts transmission from computers and terminals. Ethernet operates on 10/100 Mbps transmission rate over
shielded coaxial cable or over shielded twisted pair telephone wire.
Infrastructure - An integrated wireless and wired LAN is called an Infrastructure configuration.
Roaming - A function that allows one to travel with a mobile end system (wireless LAN mobile station, for
example) through the territory of a domain (an ESS, for example) while continuously connecting to the
infrastructure.