April 2004
Beginner
312 pages
8h 23m
English
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- cable
Broadband Internet delivery over the same cable that is used to bring in television content, primarily to residential subscribers.
- Centrino
Notebooks with chips made by Intel that feature integrated Wi-Fi.
- client
A device or program connected to a server of some sort. Typically, a client is a personal computer connected to a server computer that relies on the server to perform some operations.
- client-server network
In a client-server network, a centralized server computer controls and polices many of the basic functions of the network, and intermediates the communications between the computers on the network.
- closed node
A Wi-Fi broadcast that is protected by WEP.
- CompactFlash (CF) card
Used to add memory (and in some cases other functionality, ...