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Hi,<br />
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I was asked to keep an eye on what s going on on a companies network regarding file sharing via a wifi guest access. Access is fully open. Now before setting up any type of monitor I d need to know more what exists these days for file sharing: torrents I know, but what other things exist at what risk? Torrents I know but what about those newsbins etc.<br />
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Please advise.<br />
J
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Hi,

I was asked to keep an eye on what s going on on a companies network regarding file sharing via a wifi guest access. Access is fully open. Now before setting up any type of monitor I d need to know more what exists these days for file sharing: torrents I know, but what other things exist at what risk? Torrents I know but what about those newsbins etc.

Please advise.
J

Torrent, zbt, newsbin, giganews ...?

The term broadband commonly refers to high-speed Internet access that is always on and faster than the traditional dial-up access. Broadband includes several high-speed transmission technologies such as digital subscriber line (DSL), cable, fiber optics, wireless (for which there is a separate topic), satellite and broadband over powerlines (BPL).

Broadband

File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books. Common methods of storage, transmission and dispersion include manual sharing utilizing removable media, centralized servers on computer networks, World Wide Web-based hyperlinked documents, distributed peer-to-peer networking (P2P) and cloud-based file syncing.