User`s manual

Blitzz Super G Wireless – 108 Mbps 802.11g Notebook Adapter
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Local area network - A privately owned network that offers high-speed communications
channels to connect information processing equipment in a limited geographic area. (usually
within a single campus or building).
LED
Light Emitting Diodes - Type of indicator lights on the panel of the router.
MAC layer/address MAC
Media Access Control layer/address defined by the IEEE 802.3 specification which defines
media access including framing and error detection. Part of the OSI reference model data
link layer.
Roaming
A wireless client around an ESS and get the continuous connection to the Infrastructure
network.
Ping
An echo message, available within the TCP/IP protocol suite, sent to a remote node and
returned; used to test the accessibility of the remote node.
Port number
A number that identifies a TCP/IP-based service. Telnet, for example, is identified with TCP
port 23.
Protocol
A set of rules for communication, sometimes made up of several smaller sets of rules also
called protocols.
RTS Threshold
Transmitters contending for the medium may not hear each other. RTS/CTS mechanism can
solve this " Hidden Node Problem". If the packet size is smaller than the preset RTS
Threshold size, the RTS/CTS mechanism will NOT be enabled.
Server
A device or system that has been specifically configured to provide a service, usually to a
group of clients.
Subnet
A network address created by using a subnet mask to specify that a number of bits in an
internet address will be used as a subnet number rather than a host address.
Subnet Address
An extension of the Internet 32-bit addressing scheme which allows the separation of
physical or logical networks within the single network number. assigned to an organization.
TCP/IP entities outside this organization have no knowledge of the internal 'subnetting'.
Subnet mask
A 32-bit number to specify which part of an internet address is the network number, and
which part is the host address. When written in binary notation, each bit written as 1
corresponds to 1 bit of network address information. One subnet mask applies to all IP
devices on an individual IP network.
TCP/IP