Disclosed are a connection method and apparatus that are applied to a user terminal. The method includes: obtaining positioning information of a host in a conference room, where the positioning information includes an Internet Protocol (IP) address, point to point (P2P) information, and access point (AP) information of the host in the conference room; establishing a local area network (LAN) connection to the host in the conference room based on the IP address; when the LAN connection between the user terminal and the host in the conference room fails to be established, establishing a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) P2P network connection to the host in the conference room based on the P2P information; when the Wi-Fi P2P network connection between the user terminal and the host in the conference room fails to be established, establishing an AP-station connection to the host in the conference room based on the AP information.