A wiring color scheme.

• 568A
• 567A
• 893B

A wireless access mode that has clients communicate with each other without the user of a wireless access point.

• decentralized LAN
• ad-hoc mode
• wireless mesh

A wiring color scheme more common than the older 568A.

• 568A
• 668A
• 568B

A wireless encryption protocol used with WPA2.

• RADIUS
• Secure Shell Encryption Standard 
• Advanced Encryption Standard

A degradation of signal as it travels.

• attenuation
• degradation
• packet loss

A wiring color scheme based on blue, orange, green, and brown.

• BGOB
• BOGB
• BBOG

A method in which a wireless bridge is used to connect different 802.11 standards.

• mode switch
• 802X
• bridge mode

A popular category of twisted pair that supports speed up to 100 Mbps.

• category 5e
• category 5a
• category 6e

A popular category of twisted pair that supports speeds up to 1000 Mbps.

• category 6
• fiber optic
• category 7

Two channels that do not overlap are used together in an effort to double the physical data rate.

• Multiple Input Multiple Output
• Dual channeling
• channel bonding