CSC 240: Networking II

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Assignment 4

This assignment is based on pages 123 to 132, 310 to 320, 372 to 378, 651 to 652 and 758 to 761.

1. What type of wireless service uses a directional antenna?
2. This type of propagation uses the least amount of energy:
3. What is the downside to multipath signaling?
4. Identify two sources of wireless LAN interference:
5. Generally, to maintain the best transmission speeds stations should be within this distance to an Access Point:
6. Why can Access Points that connect two WLANs be up to 1000 feet apart?
7. What type of signaling method is used by 802.11a, b and g WLANs?
8. Which wireless station scanning mode causes an access point to send a probe response?
9. Fragmentation occurs at the Network layer on 802.3 Ethernet networks. Where does it occur on an 802.11 network?
10. The geographic range of 802.11b and g WLANs is about:
11. Identify the compatibility between 802.11a, b and g WLANs.
12. The geographic range of Bluetooth v2.0 is about:
13. This synchronizes communication in a piconet:
14. What is a hot spot?
15. The frequency range of WiMAX is:
16. The geographic range of 802.16a is about:
17. Satellite used by popular satellite ISPs usually have this type of orbit:
18. Briefly describe the two types of satellite Internet access service.
19. This tool can assess the quality of a wireless signal:
20. Which encryption method is specified by 802.11i?

• Ad hoc/Infrastructure
• Access Point
• Association/Reassociation
• CSMA/CD
• Directional/omnidirectional Antenna
• GEO/LEO/MEO
• Hot Spots
• LOS
• Piconet/Scatternet
• SSID
• War Driving
• WEP/WPA/WPA2
• WiFi/WiMAX
• Wireless Broadband

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