File Sharing, “Peer-to-Peer Networking”

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Nowadays, the demand of information is higher than before. It is caused by the information around the world is important. The stock exchange, the world news and many more make people hungry for information. Then, the sharing methods are used to spread it all over the world.

One of things that could be shared around the world is a file. There are plenty of files you will find in search engine such as Google and Yahoo and then you can download them. They are begun from Office’s data, Audio-Video data, and even Software Files. People are absolutely hungry for Information and they need media to share it.

Social media is one of the media that could share anything of information. Facebook, Twitter and Google plus already given a feature that support media sharing. However, not all of social media give a lot of space in sharing. Only Google, from their feature is called Google Drive (a digital drive). Although Google has a great feature in media sharing, but it is still less of space. Then, how people could share their files around the world with high capacity?

Peer-to-peer was designed and created so every computer can be role as server and client at the same time. This architecture will help user to share their files easily and quickly. The best thing, in peer-to-peer networking, every station’s or computer’s s files can be shared and the share’s files are separate into sharing resources and services. These means that if people want download a single file, then it is downloaded not only from one source but also from another source which be found in peer-to-peer range.

Although the peer-to-peer helps people on their work, however peer-to-peer networking has disadvantages. They are the scale of the network and security. The security is unsafe because every station plays role as sharing resources so everyone could take the files as much as they want. These issue would is solved by every files in client computer are backed-up. In the other hand, the administration should be in one station centrally so a well-equipped administrator is importantly needed.

Peer-to-peer networking is also known as workgroup. It means that the computers are connected into a single group. Every user in every computer has responsibility to manage the computer as resources because everything include on the station are fully authorized by the owner.