Peer-to-peer or

P2P file transfers

are conducted between people all the time, though many don't know what P2P is. In this episode we'll tell you

what P2P means

and tell you how

peer-to-peer file transfers

differ from other

file transfer methods

.

Cheryl Porier recently realized that she has yet to share her love for Skype with Miss Download viewers. To remedy this, she chats with A. Alfred Ayache, AKA Notorious Webmaster Web Applications Architect of Tucows and butterscotch.com via Skype to demonstrate its video chat abilities.

For quite some time the topic of Net neutrality has been a hot one. Google has taken steps and launched a new public service so that you can test your ISP (Internet Service Provider) and add your data to a database. Is BitTorrent being blocked? Are certain users throttled down when they're online? Google's new M-Lab will help you find out.

You've probably heard of the latest peer to peer (P2P) file sharing using "torrents." The basic idea is that rather than connecting to one person or computer to grab a file like other P2P file sharing systems, you get parts of the file from many people at once. Without you having to do anything, torrent software manages the whole process and it's both faster and often more reliable than other means of file sharing.