can i connect to the internet using peer to peer connection?

Question

i can connect to the internet but it wont load anything like aim or internet exployer is there a way to connect and load stuff?

Answer 1

Peer to peer by definition is for machine to machine. There can be several machines within the peer as long as they all have different IP addresses. (these normally are "local" machines).

You can use it to connect to the internet if one machine on the peer system has a connection and internet connection sharing is enabled. You do have to setup that machine as the internet gateway. Its a pain and not great but does work although why anyone would use it is beyond me. It will slow the actual internet speed by at least two since you have to send a request to the machine that is connected and it has to "forward" to the internet then reply etc etc. If you have more than one machine that you want to connect to the internet, get a router they are cheap and let real networking run properly without all the hassels.

Several well known wifi suppliers (for cities, large areas) have all the access points connect to each other by peer to peer connections with several of them as gateways. Which then allows redundant connections and the ability to balance the load.
That actually makes some reasonable sense. But if everything is within your office or home or neighborhood get a router and let it figure out the routing for you.

Answer 2

hmmm i thought p2p was over the internet

Answer 3

I'd suggest that you dont have administrative authority on this computer,