What does peer-to-peer mean

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Thursday September 23, 2010

Peer-to-peer or

P2P file transfers

are conducted between people all the time, though many don't know what P2P is. In this episode we'll tell you

what P2P means

and tell you how

peer-to-peer file transfers

differ from other

file transfer methods

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Show Notes

- Peer-to-peer is often abbreviated as P2P.

- A traditional download from a site like www.butterscotch.com is not peer-to-peer.

- In those instances, the site supplying the file is the server and the one downloading it is the client.

- A P2P transfer is conducted directly between clients, or peers, with no server involved.

- Instant messaging networks like ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, etc. all provide peer-to-peer file transfers.

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