How do I share a MOBILE broadband connection through Time Capsule ?

Hello all.
I have one of those little USB stick Mobile Broadband Modem thingies that I plug into my i-Mac with 10.5.5 Leopard to get internet access. I discovered I can share the internet connection with my i-Phone using the ad-hoc internet connection sharing function in "System Preferences > Sharing > Internet Sharing". This works fine as long as I am only trying to share with ONE device, eg my laptop, OR my i-Phone, and as long as I disconnect the ethernet cable connecting my i-Mac to my Time Capsule (otherwise Safari won't connect to any websites).
But. . . .
How do I share this Mobile Broad Band USB stick with ALL my network devices (i-Phone, Apple TV and Toshiba laptop) at the same time ?.
Should I :-
(1) Configure my Time Capsule to use NAT and "Share a Public IP Address" with the rest of the network ?
(2) Set the Time Capsule to use bridge mode and do the sharing in "System Preferences > Sharing > Internet Sharing" ?
I could not get either to work.
I read an article on how to do this using a PC on Vista using something called "Port Forwarding", but has anyone achieved this trick in the Mac world ?
regards
Shaun
regards
Shaun

Hello Tesserax.
I have the USB modem stick plugged into the back of my i-Mac, and yes I can set up an ad-hoc airport connection between my i-Mac and (say) my Apple TV, and share internet that way. This works but only if I disconnect the i-Mac ethernet cable from the Time Capsule. Presumably, this is because both the Mac and the Time Capsule are both trying to be routers ???
One of the British Mac Magazines explained that you should not try to use ad-hoc Internet Sharing (via System Preferences) whilst NAT and "Share an Internet Connection" (via Airport Utility) is turned on because they are alternative (and mutually exclusive) methods of sharing an internet connection.
I will try setting Airport Utility to use "Bridge Mode" instead of "Share a Public IP Address" and see what happens. I assume Time Capsule will still issue DHCP IP addresses in "Bridge Mode " ?? but hopefully the conflict between the Time Capsule and the ad-hoc i-Mac airport network will cease because NAT is off.
Remember, this is supposedly possible using PC computers on Vista . . .
regards
Shaun

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I have seen several similar questions and responses, but none of them quite hits the spot (as far as I can tell). I am hoping to tap into the shared wisdom of this community to help!
What I am trying to do, is to share on my wireless network, an external hard drive, that is connected to my Time Capsule, via USB. The desired end state is to use the hard drive as a sort of media server - and to enable Boxee (installed on an old Apple TV) be able to access the hard drive.
I have followed the tips I found on this site and others to get this far. At this point I can access the hard disk from my MacBook Pro. When I search for solutions to my latest issue, I can come across a lot of articles about how to format the disc, how to mount it, how to be able to see it in Finder. But i've cleared all those hurdles. I am looking for a solution to the question "How can i share the drive on my wireless network?"
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Right click on the drive in a normal Finder window, and click "Get Info". I try to adjust the access under "sharing and permissions"; use the name "everyone" and the privilege "Read & Write". But for some reason it doesn't seem to "take". As soon as i close the window, and re-open it; it is back to "no access".
I have tried to add the drive manually in boxee by directly inputting the ip address for the Time Capsule. The operation times out.
I have powercycled the TC, the modem, the AppleTV, and the HD.
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Thank you in advance.

I will try to help you, although we do not have an Apple TV.
We have a Macbook Pro (Leopard) and a PowerPC G5 (Tiger). We have a 2TB USB external HD connected to the Time Capsule. Both computers are able to connect to the USB HD, although in different ways.
This is our setup on the File Sharing tab of Airport Utility:
Enable file sharing: checked
Secure Shared Disks: with Time Capsule Password
Airport Disks Guest Access: Not allowed
Share disks over the Internet using Bonjour: not checked
(We don't have any Windows file sharing)
From the Macbook Pro (which is used to set up the Time Capsule), the TC just shows up automatically and we can browse to the USB HD.
However, from the G5, in the Finder, I had to do this:
Go > Network.
Select the name of the Time Capsule.
Press Connect.
The first time, you're asked for the username and password. Here, I type the name of the TC as the username, and the TC password as the password.
Then you should get a list of the volumes you can mount. Select the one you want and hit OK.
When my mom visits and brings her Snow Leopard macbook, it's even easier, just Go > Network, select the name of the Time Capsule, Connect, enter the password, and immediately all shared disks are available. This is wireless.
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Hi there, everyone. I'm hoping some of you can help me out with a networking issue. At my house, my only high-speed internet option is an Aircard of some sort (Sprint Sierra 595u, specifically), which (up until yesterday) i was sharing rather successfully in a wireless ad-hoc network consisting of my macbook pro, and 3 other windows machines. The computer with the modem is a Windows XP Home laptop.
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We don't know..
My pc can.. so I suspect you need something changed in the setup..
At the moment.. we have no info.. none.. nothing. Sorry but we cannot help remotely when the info is .. it don't work.
So.. what broadband do you have?
How is the TC setup? Router or bridge?
Is the pc connected by ethernet or wireless? If wireless please test with ethernet. Wireless is too problematic to be relied on.. at least to figure out the problem.
When you open a command window and type ipconfig /all please copy and paste the results here.
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Ping 8.8.8.8 Does it respond?

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Your router is really unsuitable.. if it is only wireless and no ethernet.. just buy an ethernet one.
Do a search on ebay.. 3g router.
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+What surprises me is that with setting 1 (TC joining AX) the Time Capsule has an option to extend the range of the network being joined.+
Yes, but it will only "extend" if you have a newer version of the AirPort Express, the 802.11"n" version. If you have an older "b/g" version of the AirPort Express, you can set the Time Capsule to "extend", but it won't and you'll have problems.
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PD: the computer I use is Windows based, using the Airport Utility for Windows, but I also have a MacBook Pro I could use and an iPhone too.

The utility in windows is very like Mac so the screenshots are from Mac as I don't have windows available now.
How this works depends on the setup of the TC.. which you did not tell us.. you cannot change anything if you do not have the TC as the main router in the network.
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