Travel Technology - Macintosh internet sharing option ... great for travelers

My wife and I just recently 'moved' to Mac's

One of the best options I have seen is the 'internet sharing' option under system preferences.

I usually connect my Mac via ethernet to the internet. Then I share that connection via the built-in airport. Eliminates having to have a travel router.

My wife connects to my Mac via her built in airport. She also connect her iphone this way.

I also have my wifi T-mobile phone connect to it....this gives me free phone calls.

Other than having to stop and start the service once in a while...works like a charm.

A few weeks ago I also shared my USB cell modem connection in this manner.

make sure you always use a password... open wifi hotspots will get raped at any airport waiting area...

this also makes paying for some of the wifi services that some airports charge seem a bit more feasable since you are pretty much getting a 2 for 1 deal :D

Wirelessly posted (HTC-P4600/1.2 Opera/9.50 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) UP.Link/6.3.1.17.06.3.1.17.0)

my bf did this with his mbp when we were in ireland. he shared the wired connection so we could use wifi on our phones and not need a data plan.

XP and Vista also have this functionality. That's not to detract from the value it offers but simply to point out that it is widely available.

XP and Vista also have this functionality. That's not to detract from the value it offers but simply to point out that it is widely available.

In fairness, in the Mac you check one option. On the PC...I am still trying to figure it out. Plus the Mac can serve out the signal via its internal wifi, the PC cannot (I think you require a cross over cable and an external wifi router).

This feature is a good one, overall. I use it in reverse situations sometimes--I have one laptop without a WiFi card, so I connect the other one wirelessly and then use an Ethernet cable to bridge the connection to the non-wireless laptop.

One note: you should take seriously that warning that "Internet sharing may disrupt other network activity." Be absolutely sure that you won't screw anything up (shared printers, drives, etc.) before you enable internet sharing, especially on your home network. Also, be aware that some hotel/campus internet systems will "notice" if you try to share the connection and will shut it down automatically.

I invested in an Airport Express, and it works brilliantly for short-term WiFi connections.

In fairness, in the Mac you check one option. On the PC...I am still trying to figure it out. Plus the Mac can serve out the signal via its internal wifi, the PC cannot (I think you require a cross over cable and an external wifi router).


nope, no problem sharing an ethernet internet connection to wifi on the pc and then to others, the mac cannot do wifi connection AND wifi share. Neither can.

ICS (internet connection sharing on the PC is indeed more than ONE selection, it is TWO selections.

PS, I am a MAC users - and PC VM user

nope, no problem sharing an ethernet internet connection to wifi on the pc and then to others, the mac cannot do wifi connection AND wifi share. Neither can.

You could do it on a PC if you had two wifi cards. But that seems a little silly.

What Tmobile wifi phone allows you to connect to wifi via ad hoc mode? In the scenario described, I think your connection will be in ad hoc mode.

I think any winmo device will connect via wifi, and then one could just use skype.

XP and Vista also have this functionality. That's not to detract from the value it offers but simply to point out that it is widely available.

To be fair I must admit that I have only gotten ad-hoc internet sharing to work consistently on our macbook. On my Dells with Vista or XP it's a crapshoot at best. Haven't tried it yet in "7".

What Tmobile wifi phone allows you to connect to wifi via ad hoc mode? In the scenario described, I think your connection will be in ad hoc mode.

not exactly sure what ad-hoc means, but I do is turn on the internet sharing option on the mac and then connect via wifi my blackberry curve 8900. No special settings on either side.

A few seconds later I get my UMA (wifi t-mobile connection) going. Even at low internet speeds (faster than dial up) it works great.

SLightly OT but I use Joiku on my Symbian phone and that turns the phone, using a GPRS, 3G or HSDPA connection, into a wifi hotspot. It works really well and I tend to use it to connect my iPod Touch to the Net.

You could do it on a PC if you had two wifi cards. But that seems a little silly.

I have used wifi for the internet connection and bluetooth for the sharing to other PCs.

nope, no problem sharing an ethernet internet connection to wifi on the pc and then to others, the mac cannot do wifi connection AND wifi share. Neither can.

ICS (internet connection sharing on the PC is indeed more than ONE selection, it is TWO selections.

PS, I am a MAC users - and PC VM user

Can you connect a Mac to WiFi and then connect a device, say a iPhone, to WiFi sharing on an XP virtual machine on the Mac? Is that a way to do a WiFi connect and a WiFi share?