The process of starting a new blog almost got all of me. THIS post started out as a primer for a much larger post. Soon realizing it had stand alone value, I was made public ally accessible in a drop box public directory.
WiFi, Broadband, MoDem, LAN, WAN, DLNA, 4G, LTE, 3G,, DSL
WiFi: Wireless Fidelity, a form of radio that broadcasts digital information from machine to a router to another machine or WAN. (a nod to earlier audio days with HiFi being the term for High Fidelity )
Broadband: a term for faster connection, today generally used to describe High Speed Internet, compared to dial up MoDem technology.
MoDem: Modulator Demodulator, which modulates what you type in, and demodulates what it receives.
LAN: Local area network (Work groups, office printer network, & etc.) compare to
WAN: Wide area network. This is the INTERNET
DLNA: Digital Living Network Alliance, a series of interoperable protocols so our various WiFi enabled devices can communicate in the home . compare to
UPnP: Universal Plug and Play, the term for devices that operate with DLNA Protocols (including Playstation, XBox, Wii, BD players [Blu-Ray Discs], iPads, Surface Pros and etc)
4G: Fourth generation (of phone carrier internet service) not to be confused with Apples iPhone 4S, which was the fourth gen iPhone, but still using 3G when other manufacturers were selling LTE devices.
LTE: Long Term Evolution (of phone carrier service) a name for a present form of 4G that was used for same before it was "officially " 4G now tacked on
but it is really Tomaaaaaaaaaaato Tomahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhto.
3G: Third generation (of phone carrier internet service)
DSL: Digital Subscriber Line, from your POTS, RBOC or land line carrier, it is distinguished from an analog subscriber line, by relegated voice to part of the wire, and data to another part of the wire, using digital encoding. This allows your single land line to carry both voice calls and the WAN traffic you want from the wider internet.
||||| as long as I am here, most cable systems, have wired your neighborhoods into LANs. were usually office networks which allowed file and printer sharing between computers dating back at least to Microsoft Windows 3.11 for Work Groups. Apple's AppleTalk. Workgroup=LAN. Broadband from cable is usually shared with your neighborhood, which has a single but possibly an array of "Pipes" to the WAN
||||[POTS: Plain Old Telephone Service, RBOC: Regional Bell Operating companies {the Baby Bells formerly 10 now 3]
Many of these terms are used interchangeably, correctly or incorrectly. The distinction of which can be major.
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