Computer to Network Connection Flashcards
What is Network design?
Involves knowing how networks are interconnected to support the needs of a business.
In small businesses and homes wireless routers preform what role?
It is a access point, Ethernet switch and router
Wireless routers are not suitable for what type of business?
Large organizations
Wireless NICs connect to which network?
802.11 wireless networks
In Windows 7 and Windows Vista where would you manually update a NIC driver?
Start > Control Panel > Device Manager
After the NIC driver is installed what must you do?
Configure the IP address settings
What is Manually configuring the IP configuration?
The host is statically assigned a specific IP configuration.
What is Dynamically configuring the IP configuration?
The host requests its IP address configuration from a DHCP server.
Name the 5 steps to manually configure IP settings in Windows 8 and 8.1
Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center > Change adapter settings > right-click Ethernet.
What are Speed and Duplex?
Theses are settings that must match with the device to which the NIC is connected.
WoL
Wake on LAN
What is Wake on LAN?
Settings that are used to wake up a networked computer from a very low power mode state.
QoS
Quality of Service
What is QoS?
Also called 802.1q It is a variety of techniques that control the flow of network traffic, improve transmission speeds, and improve real-time communications traffic.
Green LEDs are often used to indicate what?
An active link connection