ISP - Your Internet service provider is the company that provides you with your Internet connection.

For
example, your ISP may be Comcast, Time Warner, or whatever other company you’re paying each
month.

BANDWIDTH

A measurement of the amount of data that can be transmitted over a network at any given time. The
higher the network's bandwidth, the greater the volume of data that can be transmitted.

LAN

A local area network is a small network that’s confined to a local area. For example, your home network
or an office network is a LAN.

WAN

A wide area network is a larger network that covers a wider area. Your ISP provides you with a
connection to their own WAN, which connects to the Internet.

IP Address

An Internet Protocol address, or IP address, is a numerical address that corresponds to your computer
on a network. When a computer wants to connect to another computer, it connects to that computer’s
IP address

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that are downloaded to your computer when visiting a website. They can store
previous activity on that site and user preferences so this information can be retrieved the next time you
visit the same site. Cookies may also be used by 3rd parties to track a user's browser history over a long
period of time which can be considered a privacy concern. It is recommended that you clear your
browser cookies every few weeks to keep it running efficiently. You may want to configure your
browser's settings to not accept cookies (on work computers) or remove cookies upon closing or exiting
the browser window.

What is browser cache?

Browser cache or temporary internet files are a way that browsers download website images, data and
documents for faster viewing in the future. By keeping a local copy of some website information, your
browser will be able to load at least some information from each page you have visited without
downloading that information again from the server. This can decrease the time it takes to load a
webpage. The downside is that the information on a website may have changed while your browser
loads an older version. It is recommended that you clear your browser cache every few weeks to keep it
running efficiently. You may want to configure your browser's settings to delete or remove your
browser's cache upon closing or exiting the browser window.

JPEG - is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images
produced by digital photography. Joint Photographic Experts Group

PNG – portable network graphics, is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data
compression.
GIF

Graphics Interchange Format; a format for a file that contains a graphic or a picture. Files of this type
usually have the suffix ".gif" as part of their name. Many images seen on web pages are GIF files

HTTP

HyperText Transfer Protocol; a set of instructions that defines how a web server and a browser should
interact. Example: When you open a location (e.g., enter a URL) in your browser, what actually happens
is an HTTP command is sent to the web server directing it to fetch and return the requested web page.