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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Your client takes on an IP address for that network, as if your computer were

plugged into the LAN back at the office. Even your Internet traffic will go

through your office first. If you open your Web browser, your client will go

across the Internet to the office LAN and then use the LAN’s Internet

connection! Because of this, Web browsing is very slow over a VPN.

File Sharing

The last extra Internet function to discuss is also probably the most

controversial: file sharing. Modern file sharing started in the late 1990s and

consisted of a whole bunch of computers running the same program, such as

Napster or Kazaa. The file-sharing program enables each of the computers

running that program to offer files to share, such as music and movies. Once

all of the file-sharing programs are connected to the Internet, any of them can

download any file offered by any other in the group.

File sharing through such distributed sharing software feels almost

anonymous and free—and that’s the problem. You can share anything, even

copyright-protected music, movies, and more. The music industry (and later

the film industry) came out swinging to try to stop file-sharing practices. The

result has been a series of legal campaigns against sites and companies that

facilitate file sharing, and to shut down individuals who share lots of files.

EXAM TIP Look for questions on the CompTIA A+ 1001 exam on remote

access scenarios that use file share technologies. The rest of us call it file

sharing, but it means the same thing—using legal technologies to access both

legal and illegal content.

Software developers and file sharers didn’t back down, responding to the

pressure by creating Internet protocols such as BitTorrent that can share files

faster and more efficiently. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing program,

meaning that each computer that downloads a portion of a shared resource

will by default also share that portion with everyone else trying to download

the shared resource. The effect of this P2P model is that the more popular

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