Wireless Standard Flashcards
802.11a
Speed: 54 Mbps
Frequency: 5 GHz
Range: 20 meters
MIMO Streams: 1
802.11b
Speed: 11 Mbps
Frequency: 2.4 GHz
Range: 100 meters
MIMO Streams: 1
802.11g
Speed: 54 Mbps
Frequency: 2.4 GHz
Range: 100 meters
MIMO Streams: 1
802.11n
Speed: 150 Frequency: 2.4 or 5 GHz Range: 70 meters @ 2.4GHz 35 meter @ 5 GHz MIMO Streams: 4
802.11ac
Speed: 433 Mbps per channel
Frequency: 5 GHz
Range: 35 meters
MIMO Streams:8
Beamforming
Multiple in Multiple out RF antenna
WPA2/802.11i
Strong encryption and authentication
AES - Advanced encryption standard
EAP - Extensible authentication protocol
Channels ___ , ___ & ___ do not overlap within the 2.4 GHz frequency band
Channels 1, 6, and 11
Radio transmission in which the signal is sent over more than one frequency
OFDM - Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex
DSSS - Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
Spread spectrum
a wireless technology that facilitates short-range wireless communication between up to 8 devices
Frequency: 2.4 GHz
Range: up to 30 meters
Bluetooth
+ a form of point-to-point wireless
+ electromagnetic energy
+ frequency range 1 GHz to 300 GHz
Microwave Transmission
Sunlight
Obstacles
Smoke, dust, fog
Infrared -Wireless Performance Factors
Antenna signal characteristic Wire mesh in walls, thick walls Ambient electrical noise Conductive obstacles data rate
Radio -Wireless Performance Factors
one of more Wireless Access Points (WAP)
Infrastructure mode - Wireless mode
+ peer-to-peer configuration
+ device talks directly to other devices
Ad-hoc mode - Wireless mode
+ continuous announcement by a wireless access point + discoverable by wireless devices.
+ can be turned off for security
SSID
network topology + nodes are arranged in a linear format, and T-connector connections
Bus Topology (physical)
network topology + each node is connected to the two nearest nodes
+ Node form a circle
Ring topology (physical)
network topology + uses a central connectivity device, a switch, with physical connection to each node.
+ Most common
Star topology (physical)
network topology + each node is directly connected to every other node.
+ communicates with multiple nodes at the same time
Mesh topology (physical)
Frame Check Sequence (FCS)
Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)
4 (bytes) or 32 bits
Algorithm computed using the data (pay load) in the packet
46 bytes minimum
1500 bytes maximum
Data (or Payload) size of every packet segment
Device buffers are limited to 1500 bytes
12 Hexadecimal Characters
48 bits long (6 bytes)
MAC address
+ OUI = Organizational Unique Identifier
+ MIC = Manufacturer Identification Code
+ 24 bits
First half of the MAC address
Speed, Signal type, media
example: 10Base, 100BaseT
Format for Ethernet cards
+ All Ethernet standards are Baseband (digital)