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5200WHC2 Wiser Home Controller 2 Installation Instructions

Terms Used in This Document

• Customer’s modem The hardware component connecting the Wiser Home Controller

to the Internet.

• Default gateway A network node, for example a router, that serves as an access point

to another network.

• DHCP Dynamic Host Conﬁguration Protocol. A protocol that assigns IP addresses to

client stations on a network at startup.

• DNS A network server that resolves Internet Protocol (IP) numeric addresses from

domain names and puts them in a readable form.

• Wiser Home Controller The router and CNI unit that provides the connection from the

customer’s equipment to C-Bus and IP devices.

• ipconﬁg.exe A program used to identify the IP connections on a computer. The

program is normally run from a DOS command prompt.

• LAN Local Area Network is restricted to a small area such as a home.

• ping.exe A ping command sends packets of data to a deﬁned IP address and

then monitors and reports the returned data. This is useful for testing two way

communication between points on a network.

• TCP/IP Transaction Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. This protocol uses unique IP

addresses to identify devices on the LAN.

• WAN Wide Area Network. The data communications network that links the customer

to the Internet.

• WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access, a modern form of encryption for wireless data. It lacks

the vulnerabilities that WEP had,

• MAC Media Access Control is a unique address built into Ethernet hardware devices.

• WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy is a form of wireless data encryption using a 64-bit or

128-bit shared key algorithm.