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Wireless Home Networking Simplified
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Wireless Home Networking Simplified

by Jim Doherty, Neil Anderson
December 2006
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
384 pages
10h 39m
English
Cisco Press
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MAC (Media Access Control) address

The unique physical serial number given by the manufacturer to every networking device used for network communication.

MAC address locking

A security measure for wireless networks whereby access through a wireless signal is restricted to specified MAC addresses, and others are rejected. Also called MAC filtering.

megabit (Mb)

1 million bits. When measured over time, this is the standard transmission-rate unit for high-speed modems, such as 2 megabytes per second (Mbps).

megabyte (MB)

1,048,576 bytes.

modem (modulator demodulator)

Device that translates computer language for transmission over a network media (phone line, cable, DSL, and so on) and back again.

Network Address Translation (NAT)

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