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An electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals through electromagnetic waves.
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| Bandwidth is the rate of data transfer from a server to a PC, this means that bandwidth is the capacity for a system to transfer data over a connection. |
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| Bluetooth is a wireless specification delivering short-range radio communication between electronic devices that are equipped with specialised Bluetooth chips. |
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An electronic, handheld device primarily used for wireless communication via radio waves or satellite transmittion.
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| Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol controls how a client joins a network. |
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| A hotspot is a public area where customers can access the Internet using wireless local area networks (WLAN). |
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| HyperText Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS). |
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An IP Address, or Internet Protocol is a form of numerical identification.
There are a total of 4.3 billion possible combinations of IPv4 addresses. |
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| Stands for Internet Service Provider. An ISP is a company that gives you the connection to the network of internet computers, so that your computer has the ability to communicate with other computers. The company gives users a gateway passage into the internet, without one internet access is impossible. |
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| A MAC (Media Access Control) address is an identification code, unique to each network interface device. It is used to allocate IP addresses within a network, ensuring that each different device has a different IP. |
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| MAN - Metropolitan Area Network |
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| Short for Metropolitan Area Network, a data network designed for a town or city. In terms of geographic breadth, MANs are larger than local area networks (LANs), but smaller than wide-area networks (WANs). MANs are usually characterized by very high-speed connections using fiber optical cable or other digital media. |
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| A modem is a device, that is used to transmit data for computers. |
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| A radio channel is the process where signals are passed on through electromagnetic waves that are invisible |
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| A router is a computer whose software and hardware are usually tailored to the tasks of routing and forwarding information |
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| Spam is unwanted, unsolicited e-mail that is a form of bulk mail usually sent indiscriminately to large numbers of generally unrelated inboxes simultaneously |
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| Hardware that decides how to route Internet transmissions. Switches are similar to software routers, but faster and less flexible |
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| Universal Serial Bus or Port, connection port on a computer that is universally compatible with many types of devices, such as, printers, speakers, mouse keyboards PDAs. Commonly used for plug and play devices, and are especially popular for data storage devices, such as Flash Drives or SD Card Readers |
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| Virtual Learning Environment |
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| A Virtual Learning Environment, or VLE, is software designed to enhance a students ability to learn online, by providing tools similar to those which are available in the classroom and facilitating easy distance learning. |
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| A virus is a piece of malicious code that can replicate itself and infect a computer without the knowledge, or consent, of the user. |
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- WEP is short for Wired Equivalency Privacy and it is a security protocol for Wi-Fi networks.
- WPA is an acronym for Wi-Fi Protected Access, a wireless security standard that has been designed to improve upon the security features of WEP.
- WPA2 is an acronym for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2. This is an improved upgrade to WPA
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WiMAX is officially an acronym for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access.
WiMAX is not Wi-Fi, it is a long distance wireless data transfer system designed for "Metropolitan Area Networks". |
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Wi-Fi is a method of transmitting wireless data through microwaves.
Using Wi-Fi one can not only connect to the internet but also to a wireless network(s) |
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