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Glossary 10BASE-T 100BASE-Tx 802.11b ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line Denial of Service attack DHCP DNS Domain Name Domain Name Server DSLAM IEEE 802.3 specification for 10 Mbps Ethernet over twisted pair wiring. IEEE 802.3 specification for 100 Mbps Ethernet over twisted pair wiring. IEEE specification for wireless networking at 11 Mbps using direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS) technology and operating in the unlicensed radio spectrum at 2.5GHz. See Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line A technology for sending data over regular telephone lines. ADSL allows data rates up to 8 Mbps downstream and 640 Kbps upstream. DoS. A hacker attack designed to prevent your computer or network from operating or communicating. See Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. See Domain Name Server. A descriptive name for an address or group of addresses on the Internet. Domain names are of the form of a registered entity name plus one of a number of predefined top level suffixes such as .com, .edu, .uk, etc. For example, in the address mail.NETGEAR.com, mail is a server name and NETGEAR.com is the domain. A Domain Name Server (DNS) resolves descriptive names of network resources (such as www.NETGEAR.com) to numeric IP addresses. DSL Access Multiplexor. The piece of equipment at the telephone company central office that provides the ADSL signal. Glossary 1

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Glossary
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Glossary
10BASE-T
IEEE 802.3 specification for 10 Mbps Ethernet over twisted pair wiring.
100BASE-Tx
IEEE 802.3 specification for 100 Mbps Ethernet over twisted pair wiring.
802.11b
IEEE specification for wireless networking at 11 Mbps using direct-sequence
spread-spectrum (DSSS) technology and operating in the unlicensed radio
spectrum at 2.5GHz.
ADSL
See
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
Asymmetric Digital
Subscriber Line
A technology for sending data over regular telephone lines. ADSL allows data
rates up to 8 Mbps downstream and 640 Kbps upstream.
Denial of Service
attack
DoS. A hacker attack designed to prevent your computer or network from
operating or communicating.
DHCP
See
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
DNS
See
Domain Name Server.
Domain Name
A descriptive name for an address or group of addresses on the Internet.
Domain names are of the form of a registered entity name plus one of a
number of predefined top level suffixes such as .com, .edu, .uk, etc. For
example, in the address mail.NETGEAR.com, mail is a server name and
NETGEAR.com is the domain.
Domain Name Server
A Domain Name Server (DNS) resolves descriptive names of network
resources (such as www.NETGEAR.com) to numeric IP addresses.
DSLAM
DSL Access Multiplexor. The piece of equipment at the telephone company
central office that provides the ADSL signal.