What is a Wireless Access Point?
(WAP)

What is a network switch?

What is a router?

What is a fibre optic cable?

What are Radio Waves?

What does WAP stand for?

Which piece of hardware manages the transfer of data between devices on a LAN?

Which of these is a type of network cable?

Connector Coaxial Covalent

Describe the purpose of a network interface controller.
(NIC)

Fibre optic cables are high-performance and do not suffer much from outside interference. However, Ethernet cables, which have lower performance, are still very popular. Suggest one reason why this is the case.

Casta Networks are developing the HubBanjo, which is a router, a switch and a WAP all in one. During testing, computers could connect wirelessly and share files, but could not connect to the internet. Explain which parts of HubBanjo are faulty.

Name a factor that can affect the performance of a network.