wired and wireless networks 1.4 (v2)

wired and wireless networks 1.4 (v2)

1. NIC = Network inturface card

2. WAP = Wireless access point

3. Transmission Media = wireless, fibre optic, ethernet, coaxal

4. TCP = Transmission control protocol

5. Router = takes all the data from a computer and connects to the internet

6. switch = lets you communitcate in LAN

7. WAP = Gives you access to a network

8. NIC = Allows you to access a network on a computer

9. Packets contain a sequence number

10. Data Transmitted is broken down into packets

11. Redundancy = More routers, more reliability

12. Fault Tolurance, reliability of networks

13. Networking is connecting computers

14. fastest switch is Gigabit

15. Bandwidth is the amount of data you can send down, it is also the speed you can send data along fibre optic, wireless, coaxal, ethernet

16. Hubs were replaced by switches because switches are the same but better and faster

17. hub works with one connection

18. switch works with four connections

19. the internet is all the hardware, switches, routers, hubs.

20. WWW is all the software.