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802.11a

A wireless standard that operates at 5GHz and provides wireless speeds up to 54Mbps.

802.11b

A wireless standard that operates at 2.4GHz and provides wireless speeds up to 11Mbps.

802.11g

A wireless standard that operates at 2.4GHz, is backward compatible with 802.11b, and provides data transmission of up to 54Mbps.

802.3

An IEEE standard that defines a physical bus topology network that uses a 50-ohm coaxial baseband cable and carries transmissions at a minimum of 10Mbps. (The current standard supports speeds up to 10Gbps.) This standard groups data bits into frames and uses the Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) cable access method to put data on the cable. Ethernet is a common implementation ...

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