Comments on: Turn your Mac into a WiFi hotspot using OS X’s internet sharing

By: dogbone

dogbone — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:25:19 +0000

That suppose to read CHARM! SA FUNCTION VRAIMENT BEAU! MERCI BEAUCOUP! THANKS A MILLION!

By: dogbone

dogbone — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:23:42 +0000

work like a motherfu#$%# harm!

By: Melanie

Melanie — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:32:49 +0000

This is fantastic! I didn’t have an airport port, but with your post, I was able to enable the wi-fi on my mac after many failed attempts. And to think, this post was in my bookmarks for god knows how long. THANK YOU!! :-D

By: laica park

laica park — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:21:42 +0000

pls open wifi model ai332 tnx

By: joz

joz — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:01:29 +0000

I use internet sharing from a wired macbookpro to my iPhone. However, I lost my password. Stupid, I know, but now I can’t connect my iPhone any more. Can I delete this account, or reset this password any where? I looked on the most obvious places, but found nothing.
Please, any help greatly appreciated!

By: tim

tim — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:33:49 +0000

I have a droid 3 and used this method and it worked great for 1 day and now my phone says I have a wifi connection but it doesn’t work. I didn’t password protect at first but i did now and it still doesn’t work . HELP

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 07:32:42 +0000

You just saved me a trip to the store and $170 I was about to spend on an Airport Extreme. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

By: Diego

Diego — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:24:02 +0000

There is no ‘Airport’ on my iMac? Only FireWare and Ethernet?
My Wi-Fi of my iPhone 3G istn’t working either. It doesn’t find routers, so i need internet but how?

Btw: I do live in Belgium?

By: Betty

Betty — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:23:56 +0000

works wonderfully on my eathernet only connection at school!

By: :)

:) — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:33:09 +0000

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I really should have done this earlier!

By: Rhondray

Rhondray — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:21:47 +0000

thanks you Hardy Jonck

it’s all to do with the password in my case

effin numbers!

By: jake

jake — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:01:50 +0000

WARNING! This no longer works with OSX lion, you need an active internet connection before it will create the hotspot, so if you want to transfer files while your out of the house, or stream a movie to your phone when you don’t have a wifi connection nearby then you cant! Also, it means i need an internet connection to move spotify tracks to my iphone. Can you tell im annoyed with lion right now?

Thanks APPLE, fix this!

By: Sabina Trigueros

Sabina Trigueros — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:06:31 +0000

I’ve tried to share my USB 3G connection, but it refuses to allow it. It gives me no options for that particular “share with” except EVOModem, and shows nothing under “to computers using”. Any ideas?

By: brian

brian — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:01:06 +0000

my devices are connected to my hotspot, but unable to browse

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:32:55 +0000

I love internet sharing from my Verizon USB G3 modem. Problem: on my MBP 5,1 every other system update breaks internet sharing. Right now I’m holding at 10.6.5, which works fine. Afraid to update to 10.6.6 until I test on a spare drive.

By: varun

varun — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:17:15 +0000

thanks buddy it sure is working amazingly and perfectly for me

By: NicoNg

NicoNg — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:53:29 +0000

I’ve tried this several times but still cannot connect laptop and phone onto the network, are there any other options?
Thanks!

By: Marko Petkovic

Marko Petkovic — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:19:01 +0000

Thanks, your guide was the most complete one that helped me make this work.

I had to create a new network though (snow leopard).

By: Habibyar

Habibyar — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:35:53 +0000

Im using a Data Stick internet, and i shared it with other laptops, it was working well, but now when i share its internet and close the systems preferences window, in few seconds it stops sharing. If i keep the window open then it works.
Can any one help me how to solve the problem?
thanks

By: Sal Ri

Sal Ri — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 06:31:36 +0000

That works great!Thanks a lot!

By: Jessica Taylor

Jessica Taylor — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:09:21 +0000

Hi, I have somewhat of a complex configuration question for
you. I would like to share my VPN conncetion to other devices, iPad
and Apple TV via Wi-Fi using my Mac Book Pro and Airport. I know
that OSX Supports sharing of VPN connections via Airport, as there
is the option to share my Ethernet and Strong VPN Connection via
Airport. However, when I attempt to connect my iPod Touch to my
shared VPN coonection via Wi-Fi (from MBP) the iPod gets a full
signal but nothing will load in Safari. Yet, if I disconnect Strong
VPN, then my iPod works fine with the shared Ethernet (Broadband)
via Wi-Fi. This leads me to think that there are specific IP
Address details that need to be entered for the iPod or Apple TV to
make this work. Does anyone have any past expereince with this type
of setup?

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 06:44:14 +0000

Under my internet sharing, in the “to computers using” files, I can’t select airport like you have, how do I get this up if I can?

Thanks.

By: David

David — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:04:17 +0000

How secure is this setup? I my iMac can “see” my neighbors networks, I assume they can see mine? Does this have a firewall protection? I am new to wireless and apple products.

By: Hardy Jonck

Hardy Jonck — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:44:54 +0000

I battled for an hour total to setup a iPad with “Create Wireless Network” option under Airport and the Internet sharing.

It was a frustrating hour. Nothing worked. All latest patches applied and all.

I finally got it working as follows:

1) Setup a new network location just with my Airport and iPhone USB network connection. I could not get the iPad to connect without an active Internet connection which the iphone gave met.. stupid… The ipad would connect for a few seconds and then disconnect if my mac did not share an Internet connection

2) I set a static IP for my Airport 192.168.2.1

3) I setup a Intenet connection share with a alphanumeric password “abcde” – 5 characters. When I used a numeric password for the Wep 40 bit encryption – NOTHING worked!!.

So – then I could use my AirSharing to run a second screen on the Ipad while in the coffee shop. Apple should fix 2 things:

1) The iPad should connect to a wireless even if it does not have Internet and NOT drop it after a few seconds

2) The Mac Airport sharing should work more reliably and require less tinkering!

Hope that helps.
Cheers
Hardy