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  2. Glossary of BitTorrent terms - Wikipedia

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    A peer or downloader becomes a seed when it completely downloads all the data and continues/starts uploading data for other peers to download from. This includes any peer possessing 100% of the data or a web seed. When a downloader starts uploading content, the peer becomes a seed. [citation needed]

  3. Seeding (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, and specifically peer-to-peer file sharing, seeding is the uploading of already downloaded content for others to download from. A peer, a computer that is connected to the network, becomes a seed when having acquired the entire set of data, it begins to offer its upload bandwidth to other peers attempting to download the file.

  4. Peering - Wikipedia

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    An agreement by two or more networks to peer is instantiated by a physical interconnection of the networks, an exchange of routing information through the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing protocol, tacit agreement to norms of conduct and, in some extraordinarily rare cases (0.07%), a formalized contractual document.

  5. Peer group - Wikipedia

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    Peer groups provide perspective outside of the individual's viewpoints. Members inside peer groups also learn to develop relationships with others in the social system. Peers, particularly group members, become important social referents for [25] [26] teaching other members customs, social norms, and different ideologies. [27]

  6. Peer-to-peer - Wikipedia

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    A peer-to-peer (P2P) network in which interconnected nodes ("peers") share resources amongst each other without the use of a centralized administrative system Peer-to-peer ( P2P ) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers.

  7. Peer - Wikipedia

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    Peer, one of several functional units in the same layer of a network; See Peer group (computer networking) Peer (networking) , a computer system connected to others on a network Peer, a computer network in a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks in peering

  8. 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.

  9. Peerage - Wikipedia

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    Representative peers, holders of Scottish and Irish peerages who represented their peer-groups in the House of Lords at Westminster; Welsh peers and baronets, holders of various titles with a Welsh territorial connection; List of dukedoms in the peerages of Britain and Ireland