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Appendix J: The Setup Utility CD
The Setup Utility CD that
comes with the Adapter
contains all the tools you'll
need to install and use the
Adapter. (See Figure J-1.)
INSTALL The install utility is covered in detail in Chapter 4:
Installing the Adapter's Drivers with the Setup Utility CD.
This Utility will install the drivers under Windows 98, Me,
2000, and XP. To manually install and setup the Adapter on
a Windows NT PC, refer to Chapter 7: Manual Installation
and Setup for Windows NT.
UNINSTALL To uninstall the drivers under Windows 98, Me, 2000, and
XP, refer to Appendix I: Uninstalling the Drivers with the
Install Wizard.
DIAGNOSTIC Select this tab to run the diagnostic tools described in
Chapter 11: Using the Adapter's NIC Control Set and
Diagnostic Tools.
USER'S GUIDE Selecting this tab brings up a PDF version of this user
guide.
CONTACT US Linksys contact information for sales and technical support
is available by selecting this tab.
EXIT To close the Setup Utility, click this tab.
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Instant EtherFast Series
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Figure J-1
EtherFast ® 10/100 Managed Network Adapter
Appendix K: Glossary
10BaseT - An Ethernet standard that uses twisted wire pairs.
100BaseTX - IEEE physical layer specification for 100 Mbps over two pairs of
Category 5 UTP or STP wire.
Architecture - The total design and implementation of the network. It includes
the network's topology, transmission technologies and communications proto-
cols, management and security systems, and any other attributes that give a net-
work a particular set of capabilities and functionalities.
Backbone - The part of a network that connects most of the systems and net-
works together and handles the most data.
Bandwidth - The transmission capacity of a given facility, in terms of how
much data the facility can transmit in a fixed amount of time; expressed in bits
per second (bps).
Bit - A binary digit. The value - 0 or 1-used in the binary numbering system.
Also, the smallest form of data.
Boot - To cause the computer to start executing instructions. Personal comput-
ers contain built-in instructions in a ROM chip that are automatically executed
on startup. These instructions search for the operating system, load it and pass
control to it.
Browser - A browser is an application program that provides a way to look at
and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web or PC. The word
"browser" seems to have originated prior to the Web as a generic term for user
interfaces that let you browse text files online.
Bus Mastering - A bus design that allows the peripheral controllers (plug-in
boards) to access the computer's memory independently of the CPU. It allows
data transfers to take place between the peripheral device and memory while
the CPU is performing other tasks.
Cable Modem - A device that connects a computer to the cable television net-
work, which in turn connects to the Internet. Once connected, cable modem
users have a continuous connection to the Internet. Cable modems feature
asymmetric transfer rates: around 36 Mbps downstream (from the Internet to
the computer), and from 200 Kbps to 2 Mbps upstream (from the computer to
the Internet).
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