Over the past several weeks, there has been a lot of talk about Comcast, and other ISPs, that were attempting to get bandwidth under control by throttling users or explicitly interfering with peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing. I thought this might be a good time to define what a peer-to-peer environments, examples of them, and how P2P differs from something called client/server.

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