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  2. Troubleshoot a broadband internet connection - AOL Help

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    If you don't have broadband, you'll need to try other steps to fix problems with a dial-up internet connection. An active internet connection is required to be able to access all the best that AOL offers. If you're using broadband (cable) internet and you can't connect, try the following troubleshooting steps in the order listed until you get ...

  3. Mainline DHT - Wikipedia

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    Mainline DHT is the name given to the Kademlia-based distributed hash table (DHT) used by BitTorrent clients to find peers via the BitTorrent protocol. The idea of using a DHT for distributed tracking in BitTorrent was first implemented [1] [2] in Azureus 2.3.0.0 (now known as Vuze) in May 2005, from which it gained significant popularity.

  4. BitTorrent - Wikipedia

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    Those who wish to download the file would download the torrent, which their client would use to connect to a tracker which had a list of the IP addresses of other seeds and peers in the swarm. Once a peer completed a download of the complete file, it could in turn function as a seed.

  5. Peer-to-peer file sharing - Wikipedia

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    Peer-to-peer file sharing is the distribution and sharing of digital media using peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technology. P2P file sharing allows users to access media files such as books, music, movies, and games using a P2P software program that searches for other connected computers on a P2P network to locate the desired content. [1]

  6. Troubleshooting AOL Desktop Gold

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    Desktop Gold doesn't provide dial-up internet connectivity and can only be used if you already have a broadband internet connection. If you're having trouble getting online, check to see if the issue is with your internet connection.Our help article, Troubleshooting a Broadband Connection, provides some useful troubleshooting tips. If you are ...

  7. Peer exchange - Wikipedia

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    Peer exchange cannot be used on its own to introduce a new peer to a swarm. To make initial contact with a swarm, each peer must either connect to a tracker using a ".torrent" file, or else use a router computer called a bootstrap node to find a distributed hash table (DHT) which describes a swarm's list of peers. For most BitTorrent users, DHT ...

  8. Peering - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, a network is connected to the Internet if and only if it buys transit, or peers with every other network which also does not purchase transit (which together constitute a "default free zone" or "DFZ"). Public peering is done at Internet exchange points (IXPs), while private peering can be done with direct links between networks. [6] [7]

  9. TCP congestion control - Wikipedia

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    The slow start protocol also performs badly for short-lived connections. Older web browsers would create many consecutive short-lived connections to the web server, and would open and close the connection for each file requested. This kept most connections in the slow start mode, which resulted in poor response time.