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ASYNC ROUTER AR-P, AR-5, AND SYNC ROUTER USER'S MANUAL
V.42—Communication specification for error control. Error control is automatic, and retransmission
after link errors is transparent to the user.
V.42bis—Communication specification for data compression. Allows compression of data streams with
repetitive data by a factor of a maximum of four.
WinSock—Microsoft Windows Sockets. Application programming interface (API) that defines a means by
which IP sockets are mapped to the Windows environment. Exploiting it requires a vendor-specific
WinSock driver, which is always implemented as Windows dynamic link library (DLL). Multiple
conflicting WINSOCK.DLL files in a search path can cause IP driver and application errors or failure.
WinSock is an evolving standard.
WAN—Wide-area network. A computer network involving one or more remote networks connected over
long-distance telephone lines.
WWW—World-wide web. The Web, or W3, a service providing multimedia-capable hyperlinks between
Internet resources, regardless of their physical location.
10BASE2—Thin Ethernet. Uses RG-58 coaxial cable.
10BASE-T—Twisted-pair Ethernet. Uses UTP (unshielded twisted-pair) data cable with RJ-45 connectors.
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