NETGEAR DG824M - Manual (Page 147)

Glossary 1
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.