Routing Traffic
A unique number that can be compared to a postal code and house number.
What is an IP address?
A three letter acronym that can describe a home network.
What is a LAN?
The device that allows a local network to connect to the ISP.
What is a gateway?
Modem is acceptable.
A core component in RF communication that includes a transmitter, receiver, and antenna.
What is a radio?
When a signal encounters an object and loses power in the process.
What is absorption?
The process of a router dynamically assigning IP address to devices as they connect.
What is DHCP?
This creates a 'tunnel' through the internet to simulate working inside a LAN.
What is a VPN?
A device that allows equipment to on the same network to communicate.
Hint: It also expands wired connection capacity.
What is a switch?
The speed RF communications travel.
What is the speed of light?
When a signal encounters a smooth object larger than the wave and bounces away.
What is reflection?
This number usually expressed as 255.255.255.0 that dictates the network portion of an address.
What is a subnet mask?
A server that translates a web address, such as www.youtube.com, to the binary language equivalent used to browse the internet.
What is a DNS? (Domain Name Server)
The specific device used to transmit Wi-Fi networks.
What is an access point?
The measurement of a wave from trough to trough.
What is wavelength?
When a signal encounters an uneven object smaller than the wave itself and bounces in multiple directions.
What is scattering?
This will be replacing IPv4 in the near future due to a lack of IP address world wide.
What is IPv6?
A IP address that is not configured through DHCP and will not change.
What is a static IP?
This device handles DHCP requests and assigns IP addresses within a network.
What is a router?
A term used to describe how 'in sync' multiple wave are.
What is phase?
A term used to describe the tendency of waves to bend around objects.
What is diffraction?
An address known as the 'last hope' of getting a packet to it's destination.
What is a default gateway?
An expression of how much time it takes for a packet of data to get from one destination to another.
What is network latency?
Combines the functions of a router, access point, and a switch in one device.
What is a wireless router?
The type of radiation radio waves are classified as.
What is electromagnetic?
A phenomenon that describes two or more signals arriving at an antenna within nano-seconds.
What is multipath?