AIU Faculty of Informatics Chapter 10: Internet Connections 2022-2023 Quiz

Connecting nowadays to the internet requires subscribing to one of these services: ADSL Fiber To The Premises Cellular Data Satellite ______

______ (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) is a broad band digital line service used in homes/businesses to transmit data at high speed (could reach 8 Megabits per second) using the same subscriber line.

______ is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and does not occupy the telephone line because it uses the frequencies that are not used by the telephone call for upstream/downstream.

The download ______ is higher than the upload ______.

It is a technology that connects user to the internet via fiber optic cable directly coming from the internet service provider to the subscribers house.

______ facilitates data transmission rates much higher than the previous technologies.

A satellite dish is required to receive the signal transmitted from the orbiting ______

Wi-Fi is used in public areas such as restaurants and airports to provide devices with wireless connection to the network or to the ______

A digital modem is a communication device that sends and receives data to/from a digital line e.g. ADSL ______

A Network card is a communication device that allows a computer with not built-in communication capabilities to connect to the network, and organizes the transmission/receiving of data to and from the computer which that network card ______ to

A wireless modem is a communication device that allows mobile computers/devices to connect wirelessly to the ______

A router is a communication device that connects computers and routers together, its advantage is that it can route data (send it directly to the correct destination), and it is used to share on internet line among different users connected to the ______

A repeater is a communication device that is used to repeat and amplify signals in order to allow it to travel long ______

A hub is a simple communication device that have many ports, any received packet of data is broadcasted to all other ______

A switch is a communication device that has many ports, and sends packets only to the destination device, reducing the network traffic ______

A communication channel consists of one/many types of transmission ______