Connectivity

Function of Broadband is

• A company that provides customers with access to the internet.

• Provides high-speed wireless connectivity using 3G or 4G to connect to the mobile phone network – which acts as the user’s ISP

• Another name for mobile phone networks

• Fast access to the internet through a connection to an Internet Service Provider (ISP). They use fibre optic cables or copper cables

Common use of Seattleite is

• GPS

• Military

• Networking

Common use of WIRELESS connection is

• Networking

• Connecting peripherals

• Television

• Broadcast

Wifi and Bluetooth are the most common types of wireless connection

• True

• False

Devices can use cables to communicate with each other via a wired connection. There are many types of wired connection, eg:

• HDMI

• Ethernet

• USB

• None of them

• All are correct

Transmitters broadcast television and radio signals that are received by a viewer’s antenna

• True

• False

Local area networks

• Connects devices that are in a small geographic area (e.g a building/group of buildings)

• Spread over a large geographic area

Personal area network (pan)

• A group of connected devices close to an individual user

• Spread over a large geographic area

Tethering is

• Allows another device to connect to a ‘host device’ to share it’s broadband connection

• Connects devices that are in a small geographic area (e.g a building/group of buildings)

What is buffering?

• This is a small and temporary area of storage.

• used to identify a web server on the Internet.

• technical word for 'delay'.