Wireshark, originally called Ethereal, is a free program that is used for analysing data packets and browsing the traffic that...
Short for a service set identifier, an SSID refers to the unique name of a wireless network that differentiates it from other n...
Domain hijacking, also known as domain theft, is an unauthorised attempt to take over the ownership of a domain name without th...
Short for fibre to the cabinet, FTTC is a broadband technology that involves running fibre optic cables from the distribution p...
Short for Wired Equivalent Privacy, WEP is a security standard that is used for securing and providing privacy for WLANs. It us...
A hostname, originally known as a nodename, is a customisable name or label that is assigned to a device which identifies it on...
A wake-on-LAN, also known as a power on by LAN, resume on LAN, resume by LAN, or WoL, is a technology that allows a computer to...
In wireless communications, piggybacking, also known as Wi-Fi squatting, refers to the unauthorised use of someone else’s wirel...
A crossover cable is a type of Ethernet cable that directly connects two computers together without the use of a central router...
A zero-configuration network, also known as an autonet or a zeroconf is a network that requires no manual configuration of net...
The payload refers to the data that is within a data packet and the only data that is received by the destination system. It is...
A dedicated server is a service provided by a hosting provider that allows a user to rent an entire physical server for their o...
A dedicated server is a service provided by a hosting provider that allows a user to rent an entire physical server for their o...
FileZilla is a free FTP client used for remotely connecting to web servers to upload and download files that was released on 22...
Short for a virtual private server, a VPS is a hosting service that provides users with a virtual machine with full superuser/r...
Short for the Network News Transfer Protocol, NNTP is a protocol used for transferring Usenet articles, news, and files from one serv...
Short for registered jack 45, RJ45, sometimes spelt RJ-45, is the connector used in Ethernet cables that can be seen at the end...
Often abbreviated to a BBS, a bulletin board system is a server that a user can establish a connection to by using a terminal p...
Short for user’s network, Usenet is an early form of a forum system on the internet that is built on a command-line interface a...
A cancelbot is a program that automatically sends messages to bulletin-board Usenet internet newsgroups to delete certain posti...
As suggested in the name, a reverse DNS lookup, also known as an rDNS, is the opposite of a forwards lookup. It works by first....
Uptime refers to the time period when a network or server is up and running. It is the opposite of downtime, which refers to th...
In computing, a bottleneck occurs when one destination becomes overloaded with data, causing a network or server to slow down a...
Data transfer rate is a measure of the speed that a network device can send data. It specifies the amount of data that can be t...
Routing is the process of selecting a path for a data packet to be transported from source to destination. Routers are response...
Often abbreviated to NAS, network-attached storage is a single storage device that connects to a LAN. Instead of computers shar...
Short for fibre to the premises, FTTP is one of the fastest types of broadband available, since all of the cables are fibre opt...
Downtime refers to the time when a network or a server is inaccessible due to congestion, maintenance, rebooting, physical disc...
Short for digital subscriber line, DSL is a broadband technology that is used to transmit digital signals over telephone lines....
A data centre is a location in a building where computer systems, web servers, mail servers, file servers, and storage systems....
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