Comments on: How To Share The Internet Connection Between Mac and PC

By: Mark A

Mark A — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:17:03 +0000

I meant to add above that I was going to purchase an expensive Cradlepoint MBR1000 broadband router to accomplish this shared internet access but now it seems I do not need to.
However does anyone know if my download speed would be faster with the router vs the Airport?
Thanks.
Mark

By: Mark A

Mark A — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:10:06 +0000

Thank you for a very helpful and timely article. I needed to connect an iMac, iTouch, and Windows notebook and Nokia Smartphone to a new AT&T LightningConnect USB broadband.
I was able to get things going initially without security but when I added the 13 character security key nothing could access the internet – they connected to the Airport but nothing else.
I followed your instructions and everything is working!
I initially had a continuing problem with theTouch, which was docked. I pulled it out of the dock and retried and it was able to connect. So heads up on docks perhaps.
Thank you.
Marl

By: melody

melody — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:02:44 +0000

thank you – this was very helpful. I am sharing my pc connection with my MAC (which is using an aircard) so this worked out perfectly.

By: TonyP

TonyP — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:13:47 +0000

Thanks for this.

For all the people that said it was not a common situation – not so fast.

I’m travelling with my Mac laptop and was (easily) able to connect to the single ethernet cable at the hotel – since they do not offer wireless. But my kid was not able to get her windows PC to connect via the ethernet cable no matter what. So… I just shared the connection as per this article (didn’t enable security, since it was just a short-term issue…). Worked like a charm!

By: Miles Jackson

Miles Jackson — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:55:08 +0000

Jackson I found your post very comprehensive and helpful however still cannot achieve a connection. As you mentioned i can see the mac from windows but cannot connect using a 40-bit WEP. I am therefore using a 128-bit WEP key with 13 characters. Now the PC cannot even see the Mac. When went back into the windows network connection to review the password it seems to have changed to only have 8 characters. I have tried several different combinations with the same result.

By: Markwin

Markwin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:13:09 +0000

Didn’t work for me. Thanks anyway. “Windows unable to connect to the selected network” message is all i get )-:

Any advice would be great!

By: Olga

Olga — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:08:56 +0000

Wow!!! That worked!!! Thank you SO much!

By: badger

badger — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:49:26 +0000

hey i’m all conected up but now what??? how do i actually go about using the internet on my pc?
please help!

By: Arjan

Arjan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:11:53 +0000

But how to enter a hex value in a Mac's Internet Sharing preferences? Just entering "0a1b2c3d4e" will not tell your Mac is not a plain text password. Maybe prefixing "$" or "0x" (zero-x) helps, but I cannot test that. (Some more details on 5 or 13 character passwords are described in Apple's Choosing a password for networks that use Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). Some generic notes on entering hexadecimal keys on macosxhint.com in Entering a WEP hex key for preferred AirPort network .)

By: Immo

Immo — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:47:07 +0000

When you use 40-bit just specify the password in hexadecimal. So instead of using the numbers 0-9 you use 0-f (with f being 15 in decimal). So you would need a 10 digit hex number (every hex character is 4-bit) like: deadbeef08 or 0a1b2c3d4e