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Glossary
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Internet
The Internet is a wide-area network (
) linking several million users around the
world. A number of
have been created for exchanging data, and these are
known collectively under the name
. All participants on the Internet can be iden-
tified by an
(e.g. gigaset.com).
Domain names are assigned to IP addresses by the Domain Name Service (
Among the most important Internet services are:
u
electronic mail (email)
u
the World Wide Web (WWW)
u
file transfer (FTP)
u
discussion forums (Usenet / Newsgroups)
Internet Provider
An Internet provider (Internet Service Provider) offers access to the
for a fee.
IP
protocols. It is responsible for addressing parties in a
network using
, and routes data from the sender to the recipient. It decides
the paths along which the data packets travel from the sender to the recipient in a com-
plex network (routing).
IP address
An IP address is a network-wide unique address for a network component in a network
based on the
protocol (e.g. in a local area network (
). The
IP address has four parts (values from 0 to 255) separated by periods (e.g. 192.168.1.1).
The IP address consists of the network address and the PC address. Depending on the
, one, two or three parts form the network address, the remainder the PC
address. You can find out the IP address of your PC by entering
ipconfig
in the com-
mand prompt.
IP addresses can be assigned manually (see
) or automatically (see
On the Internet,
are normally used instead of IP addresses.
responsible for assigning domain names to IP addresses.
The Gigaset SE366 WLAN has a
and a
IP pool range
The Gigaset SE366 WLAN's IP address pool defines a range of
that the
router's
can use to assign
.
ISP
Internet Service Provider, see
