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  2. Troubleshoot a broadband internet connection - AOL Help

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    Reboot your modem/router - Sometimes the old "turn it off and on again" approach actually does work! Just wait about five minutes before turning it back on to make sure everything was reset. 4. Contact your Internet Service Provider (ISP) - If you're still not able to get online, reach out to your ISP for additional help.

  3. Ethernet flow control - Wikipedia

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    Wireshark screenshot of an Ethernet pause frame. Ethernet flow control is a mechanism for temporarily stopping the transmission of data on Ethernet family computer networks. The goal of this mechanism is to avoid packet loss in the presence of network congestion. The first flow control mechanism, the pause frame, was defined by the IEEE 802.3x ...

  4. Ethernet - Wikipedia

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    Jabbering ports are partitioned off the network until a carrier is no longer detected. [63] End nodes utilizing a MAC layer will usually detect an oversized Ethernet frame and cease receiving. A bridge/switch will not forward the frame. [64] A non-uniform frame size configuration in the network using jumbo frames may be detected as jabber by ...

  5. Network interface controller - Wikipedia

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    The network controller implements the electronic circuitry required to communicate using a specific physical layer and data link layer standard such as Ethernet or Wi-Fi. [a] This provides a base for a full network protocol stack, allowing communication among computers on the same local area network (LAN) and large-scale network communications through routable protocols, such as Internet ...

  6. Wired Equivalent Privacy - Wikipedia

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    Most devices also allow the user to enter the key as 5 ASCII characters (0–9, a–z, A–Z), each of which is turned into 8 bits using the character's byte value in ASCII (8 bits × 5 + 24-bit IV = 64-bit WEP key); however, this restricts each byte to be a printable ASCII character, which is only a small fraction of possible byte values ...

  7. Packet analyzer - Wikipedia

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    A packet analyzer used for intercepting traffic on wireless networks is known as a wireless analyzer - those designed specifically for Wi-Fi networks are Wi-Fi analyzers. [ a ] While a packet analyzer can also be referred to as a network analyzer or protocol analyzer these terms can also have other meanings.

  8. Fault Tolerant Ethernet - Wikipedia

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    Uses Multicast ( 234.5.6.7), for FTE community. Recommended maximum of 300 FTE nodes and 200 single connected Ethernet nodes (A machine with to network cards is considered as two separate single connected Ethernet nodes). Recommended to have separate broadcast/multicast domain , for different FTE communities. Recommended maximum of 3 tiers of ...

  9. Wi-Fi - Wikipedia

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    A wireless router allows wired and wireless Ethernet LAN devices to connect to a (usually) single WAN device such as a cable modem, DSL modem, or optical modem. A wireless router allows all three devices, mainly the access point and router, to be configured through one central utility.