Sharing your Mac’s Internet connection
Make your Mac into an internet router! Sometimes it’s convenient to use a friend’s internet connection for a moment, when visiting them at a hotel, or a Starbucks, for instance. You can share to and from many of your connections, including airport (wifi), ethernet and even firewire.
Visiting a friend at the Hyatt Regency yesterday to listen to his presentation at the InHowse Designer conference (brought to us by How Design ), I found myself in his room afterward. He could get internet access through an ethernet cable by his desk, or through WiFi, however, the connection is good for only one computer… unless, you use that one computer to provide access to other computers.
Visit your friendly neighborhood System Preferences….
Choose your Sharing system preference…
Choose the Internet tab in your Sharing system preference…
And after selecting your options, share either you internet connection from your ethernet to wifi, allowing multiple computers to connect to your internet connection wirelessly, or from wifi to ethernet (requires an ethernet cable), enabling one computer to share your wifi connection (or more than one if you’re using a hub or a switch, too).
Notice the Options button, it enables you to configure specifics of your new network, including, for example, a name, encryption level and password for your new wireless network.
Voila !
Use your Network system preference to Show / Network Port Configurations to add a firewire TCP/IP connection, and you can use firewire to connect, and possibly even amaze your friends, too!
