Appendix I: Glossary - Tenda W54A 54M User Manual

Access
Point(AP): Any entity that has station functionality and provides
Channel:
SSID: Service Set identifier. An SSID is the network name
WEP:
W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide

Appendix I: Glossary

access to the distribution services, via the wireless
medium(WM) for associated stations.
An instance of medium use for the purpose of passing
protocol data units (PDUs) that may be used
simultaneously, in the same volume of space, with
other instances of medium use(on other channels) by
other instances of the same physical layer (PHY),with
an acceptably low frame error ratio(FER) due to
mutual interference.
shared by all devices in a wireless network. Your
network's SSID should be unique to your network
and identical for all devices within the network. It is
case-sensitive and must not exceed 20 characters
(use any of the characters on the keyboard).Make
sure this setting is the same for all devices in your
wireless network.
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is the method for
secure wireless data transmission. WEP adds data
encryption to every single packet transmitted in the
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