Wireless Routers Network Technical Term

There are below others wireless routers technical terms you should know:

Wireless Access Point

The performance of your network will depend on signal strength of the wireless access point. Before you position it, find out the exact location from where it will give the maximum network range.

DSL Modem

Digital Subscriber Line modems are faster than regular modems and can use the existing phone lines. Both internet connection and phone lines for telephone calls can be used simultaneously.

Internet Protocol.

Internet Protocol or known as common name IP is enables unique addressing for computers. When used with transport control protocol, it is referred as TCP/IP. The newer IP version 6 is referred as IPv6. This version addresses 16 bytes in length.

Voice over IP gateway

VoIP routers have both wireless networking feature and telephone terminal adapters. With this feature the network can access both Internet and voice communications.

Protocols

These are formats for transferring data between the various devices. The protocols determine the various aspects of the data like compression types, delivery and retrieval by devices and error checking. The standard protocols differ in their various features, so in order to communicate with other computers correct protocols must be selected.

Routing Protocols

The information packets have to be routed by a series of routers to get to its destination. Latest routers automatically exchange route information with other routers through the use of routing protocols.