Comments on: MacBook Internet Connection Sharing

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:00:05 +0000

I had this working for a while. My macbook had internet sharing turned on. I had to connect manually to the network from a Windows laptop. However, when I rebooted the macbook the whole thing went to hell. Now I can’t connect to the macbook’s wi-fi with (invalid IP configuration). I’ve tried for 2 days. about to throw in the towel and buy a router. Can’t even connect with no password on the macbook wi-fi. Inexplicable. I wish computers would just leave well enough alone.

By: David

David — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:08:00 +0000

Markus... are you trying to share a wired connection? If so, the above should work without any troubles. If you are trying to share a cellular modem (such as the USB727), make sure that you are not using VZAccess Manager to connect. VZAccess does not allow the AirPort to work simultaneously with the cellular modem. Instead, use Mac OS X's System Preferences to connect: USB727 on a Mac: How to Connect Using System Preferences. Hope this helps.

By: Markus

Markus — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:28:39 +0000

I’ve done all the steps (correctly I assume), but it doesn’t seem to work. My Airport icon doesn’t change to the one with an arrow so I guess there’s the start of it not working, but I have no idea what to do differently to make it work…?

Thanks

/Markus

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By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:03:04 +0000

Hello,

Not sure what I may be doing wrong. I want to use my Macbook Pro to connect another PC to the internet. My Mac is connected to the internet wirelessly, therefore I would like to use the ethernet port on my Macbook and connect to my PC with an ethernet cord. In other words, my Mac is connected to the inernet wirelessly and I want to use the mac as a hard link to my PC.

Can you help?

Thanks
Phil

By: David

David — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:31:34 +0000

Bob:

Interesting problem. It sounds like you connected the computers in a different way than described above. The ethernet cable is connected only to the MacBook. Then the MacBook shares its Internet by creating a wireless access point that other computers connect to wirelessly. So, in your case, the PC would be connected over WiFi, not over ethernet cable. Have you tried it that way?

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:51:08 +0000

I am running OSX and Windows 7. At first all I did was plug in and ethernet cable to my wireless macbook and my pc. And then I went to the system preferences of the Macbook like you described. So essentially my Macbook was sharing its wireless connection to my pc via ethernet cable. Then one day it stopped working, I think maybe Windows or OSX ran a system update. Any ideas to help me get my pc back on the web?

By: 13 inch

13 inch — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:08:54 +0000

When i secure the connection, another person using a windows Pc cannot connect. In fact the person can see the wireless connection but can’t get connect to it. So PLS if somebody knows what to do just tell me. THANKS

By: alfie

alfie — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:46:33 +0000

i tried sharing my internet connection, thus the other computer has limited connection where i cant browse the internet, would you know what else do i need to do?

thanks!

By: David

David — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:50:37 +0000

Sebastian and david: Thanks for your helpful comments!