Google confirms Hangouts will now use peer-to-peer connections to improve call quality and speed

Google Hangouts has received a small but important backend upgrade: peer-to-peer (p2p) connections. Google confirmed to VentureBeat that the functionality started rolling out to all users this week. Reddit user kxra first spotted the addition in their Hangouts for Android app yesterday. We reached out to Google to gauge what exactly the feature meant for […]

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