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Tag: SIMILARITY ENHANCED TRANSFER

New software could make P2P downloads a whole lot faster

Two Pittsburgh-based researchers have released code that they say can increase peer-to-peer download speeds by up to 500%, although actual tests have shown more modest speed boosts of 30 to 70%. The software, called Similarity-Enhanced transfer works like BitTorrent, allowing users to download a file from multiple sources at the same time. But instead of looking for identical bits of ...