Wanted: Your confusing technical jargon

seamus

I need some lists of words and jargon that you hear in relation to Internet connections. The more technical stuff, such as DHCP, contention ratios, etc etc.

It's for the whole FAQ/Glossary section of the IOFFL website.

Also, not being in business myself, I'm not 100% on what's available primarily to business customers and not resdiential customers. VHDSL? B-ISDN? Lists of them too cheers.....

Dusty/Sceptre feel free to move........

ednwireland

starting out jargon buster from initiative supplement

if this is the quality of esat bt dsl staff ......................
i'm assuming it was sponsored by ESAT BT asthere is a price comparison there which doesn't mention eircom DSL offering
will post if i can format

133MHz Processor: MHz is the abbreviation for megahertz. One
MHz represents one million cycles per second. The speed of a computer's microprocessors, called the clock speed, is measured in MHz.
For example, a microprocessor that runs at 133MHz executes 133
million cycles per second. It determines how many instructions
per second the microprocessor can execute. To a large degree, thiscontrols how powerful the computer is.

16MB RAM: MB is an abbreviation for megabyte. A megabyte
of memory is capable of storing approximately 1.4 million char-
acters, or about 3,000 pages of information. RAM (random
access memory) is the live memory used to run your software. The
more megabytes of RAM your computer has the faster and eas-
ier it is to run.

10Base-T: This is a standard technology used over computer net-
works. A PC using a 10base-T network interface card will be able
to communicate over a network with other PCs and servers.

MDR

I would check out the explaination of the abbrevations sections of the ODTR's 'Future Delivery Of Broadband in Ireland' consulation paper and its attached 'Ovum' report, it should keep you going for a long time.

ODTR

SkepticOne

See? They are good for something. Only joking. Where's me flat rate?

Dustaz

nice one seamus. Ill copy this to nets/comms (rather than move) for MJH (Maximum Jargon Harvest)