Peer exchange
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peer-exchange-197-9888790
title:
Peer exchange
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Peer exchange or PEX is a communications protocol that augments the BitTorrent file sharing protocol. It allows a group of users that are collaborating to share a given file to do so more swiftly and efficiently. In the original design of the BitTorrent file sharing protocol, peers (users) in a file sharing group relied upon a central computer server called a tracker to find each other and to maintain the swarm. PEX greatly reduces the reliance of peers on a tracker by allowing each peer to dire
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BitTorrent communications protocol
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_exchange
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2023-09-27T15:46:36Z
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