I have to admit, whenever I hear "peer to peer", I automatically think of something like LimeWire or people illegally downloading music and movies. Something I never realized is that a lot of home computers are on peer to peer networks. Most of the time, computers are pretty close to each other if they're on a peer to peer network. At my home, there are three laptops and one desktop computer. My mom networked them all together so we can all print from the printers, use the fax machine if need be, I can even plug a USB into my laptop from the desktop computer and access all the files on that computer, and we are all connected to the internet on the same router. Although, there are arguments that a network is no longer a P2P network when a network router is installed, it is still a P2P network. Installing a network router just means all the computers on the network can connect to the internet.
So lots of homes with multiple computers are P2P networks. I thought that was pretty interesting.
-Keri Brock
http://compnetworking.about.com/od/p2ppeertopeer/a/p2pintroduction.htm
P2P is awesome!!! P2P 4 Life!!!
ReplyDeleteI like the fact that we only have to buy one printer at my house also. We can use it as long as we connect it to our laptops. It's a lot easier and saves money too.
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ReplyDeleteI agree! Being able to connect to the printer is so much easier. Before that, I had to save my work on my laptop, then email it to myself, then go to my mom's computer and check my email, then I could print it out. It was so inconvenient. And it took so much time.
-Keri