Meanings of the most important terms in the world of the Internet and networks

 

Human life has become completely dependent on the Internet, for work, study or entertainment. No home or business can abandon the principle of having a stable Internet connection in our current era. Therefore, when you start making your decision to create an Internet network for your home or office, you will discover that you are dealing with some technical terms related to the Internet, which are often new to you: The simplest of these terms, for example: Wired, which means wired connection, as we also call it an Ethernet connection.

 

Some other terms such as Wireless, Broadband, WiFi antenna, CAT5e cable, and many other common terms that you will be curious about knowing and understanding their meanings in order to be familiar with the thing you are dealing with as best as possible. In our topic, we will explain to you the most common terms that you will always encounter in the world of local Internet connection and what they mean in a nutshell - so let's go.

 

1- WLAN

 

WLAN is an abbreviation of 4 words, Wireless Local Area Network. The purpose of this technology is to connect two devices to each other wirelessly without any physical means. A wireless local area network is always created to provide a stable connection between two or more devices within a specific range of space, and any device that moves outside these limits will immediately lose the wireless coverage area, and thus lose its connection to the network.

 

Naturally, your home internet in your home works in the form of what we are talking about now > WLAN, which is the way your devices are linked together to the home internet, which we often call WiFi.

 

2- WPAN

 

WPAN is an acronym for 4 words Wireless Private Area Network, which is used for communication between personal devices. For example, when you use a wireless mouse, keyboard, or headphones via Bluetooth, or even when you connect your phone to your computer via Bluetooth, the network that brings together and connects those devices is a WPAN. WPAN describes the connection between nearby devices, however the same term may be used while devices are connected over wider areas.

 

3- IPv4 & IPv6

 

The Internet uses a set of protocols as basic standards, which allow network communication. These protocols are known as TCP / IP, which in Arabic means Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol. The first major version was IPv4, followed by TCP / IP with IPv6, but both protocols are still in use today.

 

We now have Internet Protocol version 4 and 6. Both protocols are responsible for limiting the transmission of data over the Internet, while the IP address determines the number of Internet Protocol addresses available for use. Some examples of IP addresses such as the quadruple sequence 192.19.254.1 These numbers are to indicate a specific location on the Internet. Every website, router, and device connected to the Internet has its own IP address.

 

4-NAT

 

NAT is an acronym for Network Address Translation. Network address translation is used by the router to share a single IP address across multiple devices. For example, as long as you have a wireless router at home, it is normal for the router to use Network Address Translation technology to enable every device connected to the network to access the Internet through a unified gateway. As we just mentioned, the router has one IP address, and it assigns individual IP addresses to the devices in the network, and creates a local network based on them.

 

5- Gateway

 

Gateway refers to a device inside the Internet that enables traffic to flow freely from one network to another. The router acts as a gateway allowing data to be routed from the Internet to the connected devices.

 

6-Packet

 

The word packet is used to denote the size of data that is transferred over the Internet, and a packet can contain a maximum of 65.535Bytes of information, approximately 0.065MB. However, of course, home Internet networks use data packets of less than 0.015MB in size.

 

7- P2P

 

P2P stands for Peer 2 Peer, which means peer-to-peer. This term refers to any network that connects users directly into a distributed network of the Internet, where each connected computer is known as a peer. These callers are network distributors at the same time, allowing the P2P network to engage in more robust activities while maintaining the benefit of all connected users.

 

The term P2P is widely known due to its involvement in file sharing networks, which often contain pirated content that violates copyright laws. But it is also used for legitimate activities because task distribution allows for the transfer of data of larger files.

 

8- Protocols: TLS/SSL—HTTPS

 

Transport Layer Security (TSL) is a layer of security to maintain the security of the user's Internet data. Basically, they are encryption protocols that allow sensitive data to be communicated securely with different websites, such as online banking portals and government portals. The TLS/SSL system adds an encryption system to the current Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS), which is currently used to browse websites. It is the one that gives security to all communicators on the web.

 

9- DDoS

 

DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service and is a type of cyberattack that floods the service with requests. When attackers target a particular website, service or video game and overwhelm its servers with a request for data, the large number of requests can cause the infrastructure of the server hosting that service or website to fail. This is when an unintended denial of service occurs as a result of dealing with a website with a large user base within a much smaller site.

 

10- DNS

 

Domain Name System is the way computers translate our mundane, everyday text into network-readable IP addresses. When you type kingdomofhardware.blogspot.com into your browser's search bar and hit the Enter key, your computer immediately connects to the site's DNS server, the server responds with Computer-WD's IP address, and then begins transferring content. You can set your own DNS servers to be different from their default servers, as there are many DNS providers, such as Google Public DNS or OpenDNS.