Week 5 Vocabulary

The week five vocabulary quiz will be given on Thursday, February 19th.

Bandwidth:
The range of transmission frequencies that a network can use. The greater the bandwidth the faster information can travel.

address:
(email address, internet address, web address) A code or series of letters, numbers and/or symbols. Each address is unique.

domain name:
The address or url of a particular web site. This is how you describe the name that is at the right of the @ sign in the internet address.

host:
Any computer that can function as the beginning and end point of data transfers.

client:
A remote computer connected to a host or server. Client also refers to the software that makes this connection possible.

server:
A host computer on a network.

ISP:
Internet Service Provider. A service company that provides a user with an account on a host-computer having access to the internet.

Packets:
How information travels over a network.

download:
To transfer a file from another computer to your computer.

IP address:
Internet Protocol Address. A uniquely assigned numeric address for each computer connected to the Internet.