Friday, September 12, 2008

What is Peer-to-Peer Networking?


Team Member - J. Gorman - Peer-to-peer networking a.k.a P2P is a computer network set up to share files between individual computers over an area instead of distributing files throughout the network from a central server. In a P2P network the more users there are distributing the files the better, because it enables users to download files much faster. The file or files being downloaded are broken up into bits and the complete work of the download is shared by the entire network.

For more information about P2P networks click here for the Wikipedia article.

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