Internet Sharing a WWAN connection

I live in a remote area of Virginia were the only Internet access is either Hughesnet which is very expensive and restrictive or Mobile Broadband. I went with Alltel Mobile Broadband, I have two machines, 1st is a MacBook 2 GB and second is a MacMini 2 GB. The Mobile Broadband is supplied via a Huawei EC168 USB modem. The problem is getting Internet on both machines and our iPhone's. I hooked the Huawei EC168 USB modem to the MacMini then hooked an Ethernet cable to my Airport Extreme, selected the Alltel Internet connection in the Internet Sharing prefs panel, turned on Internet Sharing and it worked. *GREAT* Well, it's all good until the power goes off or any other problem arises. Then it just doesn’t work, I have repaired permissions and got it to work again but then it will just quit. I spend hours troubleshooting, I have tried running the Ethernet thur a broadband router so that everything has an assigned ip address. Still have problems. To me it the Internet sharing feature is very flaky. Does anybody know of a more stable way to share a WWAN Internet connection? It might require the purchase of a travel router but I would like to find a solution via the macs.
Message was edited by: Jim Brown10

Hi!
I'm having the same issue... I tried many different ways and I'm still not able to share my Ethernet 802.1x internet connection.
I have exactly the same configuration: Ethernet (802.1x) > Internet Sharing > Shared over Wi-Fi
I tried changing the IP, DHCP, and so on... but still no changes.
It can be possible that my roomate con make it with Connectify on his PC and I can't on a Mac. What's going on?
Did you solve it? Is it true that if I get an Airport Extreme I can solve this issue? I don't want to spend money without solving the problem.
Thanks,

Similar Messages

  • IMac internet sharing failing to connect to my Blu-Ray disk player.

    I have a Late 2009 iMac 27-inch. I have setup internet sharing through wifi. All of my iPods, iPads, iPhones connect just fine. But when I try to connect my Blu-Ray disk player, it gives me a timeout error. It is a Panasonic DMP-BD87P-K. I have called Panasonic, but they didn't offer to many things.

    Internet Sharing is clearly working. The only options you can configure are the type of security and the channel. If changing those doesn't help, then either the device is too far away, or it's incompatible.

  • IPhone 3Gs, Mac Pro Internet sharing via Airport connection problems

    Hi, I have internet sharing turned on in my Mac Pro for the Airport connection and it works very well with laptops, but I have trouble getting my iphone 3gs to connect to it sometimes.
    restarting the iphones does not help
    stopping and starting the airport does not help
    I can restart the Mac Pro, but that can be a pain, but does usually allow be to connect again for awhile...

    I've been having the same problems as everyone else here. Trying to share internet connection from my ethernet wired iMac to my MacBook and my iPhone. Tried all the workarounds, but nothing works, or lasts very long.
    Yesterday, I finally talked with AppleCare for over an hour. All their suggestions (trashing preferences, changing settings, etc.) failed, as well. The AppleCare person then put me on hold to speak to an engineer, who told her that Snow Leopard no longer supports Internet Sharing as of 10.6.1.
    Not willing to accept that answer, I had them set up an appointment at the Apple Store Genius Bar for me, and after chatting with the Genius for a while, he also confirmed that Internet Sharing is no longer supported under Snow Leopard. Apparently, there were many hardware issues that the engineers decided to circumvent, and so did not include support for Internet Sharing with the internal airport in Macs. They said that the Airport it is intended to receive, not to send a signals! Yet, it worked fine, doing just that, under Tiger and Leopard! The only fix he could offer was to wipe my drive and take me back to 10.5, which I declined.
    However both the guy at the Genius Bar and the lady at AppleCare inferred that Apple "may" release another update to fix this issue, if they get enough complaints and bug reports.
    So, there you have it. Apple no longer officially supports Internet Sharing in Snow Leopard.

  • Keeping Internet Sharing connections off Bonjour subnet

    Hi,
    I have my Mac Mini connected to my home lan via ethernet. I have set its Airport for Internet Sharing. Despite connections to the Airport being on a different subnet than my lan, any device using that Internet Sharing connected can "see" and access any Bonjour services (like Screen Sharing or AFP for example) on the lan.
    Now I understand that those Internet Sharing connections connect to the router via NAT provided through my Airport on the Mini. But what I'd like to do is use ipfw or whatever to prevent the Internet Sharing subnet from accessing any IP on the lan with the exception of the router itself. With iptables I could probably figure this out (or get close), but I am not familiar with ipfw. Can anyone help me with setting up ipfw to do this?
    Thanks,
    Doug

    I'm no expert but usually the router lets you share one ip address (assigned by your ISP) between several computers on an internal network and the computers can each connect via the router - they don't need to connect to each other. For example, I've got a set up with two computers (one is mine, one is my parents') and two airport base stations. One of the base stations acts as a router (the other just boosts the range so the signal is stronger upstairs) and it distributes internal ips between the other base station and the two computers. We share the internet connexion but neither computer is set up to share its own internet connexion.
    So if you're asking what I think you're asking, I don't think you need to enable internet connexion sharing at all - you could just have the computers connect via the router. The only reason I can think not to do this would be if maybe the router doesn't allow wireless connexions and you needed to connect one of the computers using this method. Otherwise, I'd think you'd just connect both through the router.
    If that doesn't help, it is probably because I have no idea what I'm talking about - or, rather, very little idea which is worse because it means sometimes I think I understand something a little bit!
    - cfr

  • Internet Sharing broken again with 10.6.8 update?

    I have used Internet Sharing for years.  (SysPrefs/Sharing/Internet Sharing/Share your connection from [Ethernet] to computers using [Airport]).  It is very useful in my large old house, where my iMac is connected by an ethernet cable to a WiFi router in another part of the house; it gives me another WiFi zone without having to buy a WiFi extender.
    This seems to be a forgotten feature in the OS (forgotten by Apple, that is).  Several times in the last few years, it has "broken" ie ceased to work after an OS upgrade, and only worked again after either another upgrade to the OS or to Airport.  The last time, upgrading to OS 10.6.7, it still worked but had an annoying but tolerable bug which required me to switch it off then on again after a restart.
    I have just upgraded to 10.6.8 and it seems to be broken again.  (iPad etc can see the network, pretend to join it, but don't actually connect to the internet).
    Anyone else got the same problem?
    Anyone at Apple reading this?
    Maybe I should just go and buy another WiFi extender (they're a lot cheaper now) and stop trying to use my Mac to do this!

    My wife's new(ish) MacBook Air had the wifi problem. As soon as she upgraded to 10.6.7, she lost internet connection - though wifi signal was still strong. We were hoping the new upgrade to 10.6.8 would fix the problem. It didn't. I tried everything - PRAM, disk permission repairs, etc etc. Finally, this evening, on a whim, I decided to input my old DNS settings (from when I was using the Witopia VPN) into her network settings. I have no idea why, but her connection returned immediately. I tried deleting them again to make sure it really was that, and the connection was lost. Put them back, and the internet came back. Bizarre. We are not even using Witopia anymore (we are in China, and use Asterill). Can anyone explain what's happening?
    Thanks!

  • Internet Sharing and machinename.local

    Hi! I've recently set up my Mac mini (10.4.6) to run Internet Sharing, and ethernet connections to any laptop I connect works beautifully. (For exactly what I did to get this set up, visit http://www.aleph0.com/computing/macosx/dhcp-setup/ , but nothing there is really beyond the basics you might expect.)
    One tiny feature I don't have working is the ability to connect the "internal" computer and the mini using aliases---only IPs are possible. For instance, the "Sharing" panel suggests other computers can connect to the mini as "natalie.local"; similarly, when I connect a Windows laptop named "will" to the mini, /var/db/dhcpd_leases even shows it's connected as will---but I can't connect from one to the other using those names. (i.e., via http---both are running web servers---or via sftp---both are running sshs as well), while connecting with the numerical IPs works fine.
    So after that ramble, I wouldn't be surprised if "natalie.local" is really only suppose to work with AFP, and will with SMB, but thought I'd ask for suggestions. I've considered playing with DNS on OS X to work on such a possibility, but I thought I'd ask first....
    Thanks for any pointers!
    CDJ
    Mac mini (Original)   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   Running Internet Sharing (connected to Internet via AirPort, "internal" via ethernet)

    Otherwise run your own dns server on your LAN.
    This is what I expected to have to do on the mini---I have a DNS server, but the mini with Internet Sharing doesn't send any information to it; that's what I'd like to figure out how to do. Perhaps stepping back and stating the basics of what I'd like would help:
    I have a mini running 10.4.6 (natalie), connected (via the rest of my home LAN) to the Internet via AirPort, and the ethernet jack is unused. I'd like to connect a laptop (will) (that uses DHCP, but OS- and software-unspecified) via ethernet to the mini, access the Internet, and allow the two machines to address one another as "natalie" and "will" (or "natalie.local" and "will.local", etc.) for TCP/IP commands, instead of "192.168.2.1" and whatever address is assigned to will. This works after installing Bonjour on will, but I'd like to not have to install Bonjour on the laptop (specifically, I'd like to connect any random laptop that can use DHCP).
    Am I wrong in thinking there should be a way for natalie to "take over" this portion of the DNS, or at least update my LAN's DNS server so that the process is still seamless for will?
    Thanks again,
    CDJ

  • Wireless Internet Sharing with iPod touch - email yes, web no ???!?!?!!

    Okay - I really don't understand this!
    I'm using the following constellation: My MacMini ist connected by an Ethernet Cable to an AEB, which is used as the Internet Router (exactly: it brigdes the Internet connection). The Mini itself is surfing the Web fine. Now I opened the build-in Airport for Internet Sharing (using Ethernet; connecting through Airport). This is working nicely, when I connect to this Airport-Network with my MacBook Pro.
    But now, there is the problem: When try to use this connection with my iPod touch, I cannot open any website! Neither is You Tube working nor any of the Widgets. Buuuuut - I can send and receive emails without problems!
    Any explanation? Any help?
    Thanks!
    Message was edited by: Christoph Lichtenberg

    I have a similar problem - trying to share the internet connection of my MBP via airport to my ipod touch. It works sometimes. Directly after activating Internet Sharing it can load a page or two, then it usually gets stuck.
    At the (apple certified) store around the corner, they were able to reproduce the problem, but said it is a software problem, rather than an airport issue.
    There is another thread about random behaviour with internet sharing: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1164535&tstart=0
    On a friends iBook, the same thing works perfectly...
    My initial guess was a wrong mtu value - but couldn't fix it so far...

  • Screen-Sharing and Internet-Sharing via same network connection

    Hello out there,
    I'm using a TiBook (G4 867MHz) and a MacBook Pro 17". They are connected via a WLAN-router. Additionally the MBP is connected to the internet via an UMTS-connection established with a Merlin 870XU type PC-card.
    Network is working fine, including screen-sharing. Also the internet connection on MBP works without error. But if I activate Internet-Sharing via WLAN to get my TiBook connected to the internet, the MBP connection to the WLAN is cut off.
    Can somebody tell me what's going wrong and how to solve it?
    Greetings from good old Germany
    Ansgar

    Hello out there,
    I'm using a TiBook (G4 867MHz) and a MacBook Pro 17". They are connected via a WLAN-router. Additionally the MBP is connected to the internet via an UMTS-connection established with a Merlin 870XU type PC-card.
    Network is working fine, including screen-sharing. Also the internet connection on MBP works without error. But if I activate Internet-Sharing via WLAN to get my TiBook connected to the internet, the MBP connection to the WLAN is cut off.
    Can somebody tell me what's going wrong and how to solve it?
    Greetings from good old Germany
    Ansgar

  • Mac pro no longer connects to web via internet sharing

    My Mac Pro does not have an airport card so I have often used a PowerBook G4 or MacBook Pro to share a wireless internet connection via ethernet. A few months ago this method began failing but I was able to share a connection via firewire. Now I am not able to do either.
    I have attempted to use both the mbp and the pbg4 to no avail using both ethernet and firewire for days, employing various troubleshooting methods including zapping PRAM, repairing permissions, and dumping network cache. I've tried static IP addresses and manual setups. The mac pro shows that it is connected to a network and displays all the proper IP information but is unable to load a web page and the diagnostics window shows an ISP, server, and internet failure regardless of any changes I make to network settings on it or the mbp/pbg4. Meanwhile, the laptops are connected to the internet just fine and are able to share a connection with each other.
    What can I do to make my tower susceptible to internet sharing once again?

    Your local LAN runs through your router.
    All your ethernet  ports, and your modem and router, should be behind and filtered from excess current. That means a UPS generally. And run input line thru UPS (coax) first, then run RJ45 back through UPS again (there can still be excess surge or current on the line).
    Modems and routers can be compromised by surge outage or storm. So can ethernet  ports.
    You have two ethernet ports and you tried with both also.
    What you did not do that I would have added is SMC Reset / Reset NVRAM/PRAM.
    This is what I have had for the last year, very nice and stronger  signals thruout the house.
    http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Wireless-Router-Gigabit-R6200/dp/B008HO9DIG/

  • Windows 7 wont connect to Lion Internet Sharing via Wifi

    I have a 2011 Macbook Pro 15" with i7. I know the internet sharing feature works, because I used the wifi internet sharing with a Macbook Air and that worked fine. But when I try to connect from a Windows 7 Ultimate laptop, the connection cannot be established. I tried:
    Changing the Wireless Name
    Changing the encryption key
    Tried no encryption key
    Rebooted
    Am I missing someting? Am I correct to assume that the built in internet sharing allows you to connect your devices to macbook pro as a router? I appreciate your assistance, thanks!

    Same here.
    I have all my machines (rather HAD) connected to the internet via a shared single connection through a 3G dongle (welcome to the countryside). I made the mistake of upgrading my machine to Lion only to realise a couple of days later that all the other machines had been starved of internet access.
    Now only my main machine has access, even though according to all of my thousands worth of apple gear the green lights are on and all is ok. The Airport extreme says it's connected, its lying. The Timecapsule says its connected, its lying. The Mac mini says its connected, its actually admits there is a problem when you run the network diagnostics. Same for our macbook pro. At least the Windows machine says it's connected but no internet.
    This is pathetic as apple have know there was an issue since june last year. Once more I get the feeliing Apple couldn't give a fiddlers'. Most likely greedily eyeing the forthcoming cash bonanza from the ipad 3.

  • Lumia 920 - internet sharing doesn't work: Connect...

    Hello all,
    I'm experiencing a serious problem with the lumia 920. It seems impossible to share my internet connection. Something I normally use for several hours a day. If this problem can't be fixed soon, ill be forced to swithc back to iphone or htc.
    Problem description:
    When turning "internet sharing" on:
    Connection not shared - There is no cellular data connection to share right now. Check your cellular settings and signal, and try again.
    Important remarks
    Belgium - cellular provider is Mobistar
    I can browse, sync email, etc over the provider's network ans send and receive MMS.
     Provider does not block internet sharing. Have always used this.
    OS Version 8.0.10211.204
    Firmware revision: 1232.5957.1308.0002
    Access point :
     Nokia Access Point version:3.4.1.7 - db 2.0.0.100 - lib 1.2.0.7
     The default access point provided in the Nokia Access Point app does not work: can't even browse.
     Using a manually added APN:
     Data type (default / LTE) tried both. Everything keeps working - except internet sharing...
     APN pro.web.be  (for professional subscribers)
    MMS APN mms.be
    MMSC address: https://mmsc.mobistar.be
    What have i tried to remedy the situatiuon?
     updated the Nokia Access Point app
     changed language to spanisch using OTA update (silly, but read on a forum this might help)
     soft reset of the phone (often!)
     deleted the manually created access point
     Hard reset of my phone
    I'm interested, of course, in any tips to solve this serieus bug / issue / problem.
    (my best guess is that Nokia tries to help their customers with the Access point app, but fails to do so).
    Please, if any of you experience the same problem please respond to this post so we can get an idea about how big of a problem this is.

    Hi,
    I had the same problem. But I let it go after weeks of corresponding with Mobistar.
    Yesterday I went to a Mobistar shop, the guy tried lots of thing I already tried (different apn's, ...).
    Then he told me the it's a problem with business clients. They have to use the apn web.pro.be, where internet sharing doesn't work (he doesn't know why).
    But, that if I call to Mobistar and ask to activate apn mworld.be on my telephone number, it should work.
    Today I called Mobistar Business (you can find the helpdesk number on your invoices), asked to activate mworld.be to have internet sharing access on a windows phone.
    Half an hour later, using mworld.be as apn i have internet access, and I can share my internet connection.
    regards,
    Stijn

  • Problems with internet sharing/network connection/ethernet and XBOX 360

    So basically I have a sent my Mac Book Pro 13" (Snow Leopard) away to be fixed, and in return I got a loan Mac Book Pro 15" (Lion). In the two weeks my Mac book was away getting fixed I purchased an XBOX 360, because of my location I am unable to use wireless on my XBOX, so instead I connect the loan Mac Book to the XBOX 360 via network cable.
    This worked fine and I could now connect to XBOX Live and be on the Mac Book at the same time.
    So today my Mac Book (13") is returned, I connect everything up exactly the same also changing the settings on internet sharing making sure that it can be used to send the connection to other devices via ethernet.
    But it just wont connect.
    The XBOX doesnt find the connection like it did before, and it also doesnt register on the MAC Book either.
    I've tried different cables, the same cable I used where it worked before.
    I've tried turning of Virus protection.
    Both still at both ends it is not registering a connection, I have used this Mac Book before through a network cable so I dont think there is a problem there, to my knowledge everything is the same as I did on the other Mac Book but this one does work.
    Have you any advice or tips on how to get this to work?
    Thanks for your time.

    What I did to get my network running again (although I still haven't found out why DHCP has stopped working):
    1. Open the Control Panel of the computer that's trying to connect to the network (not the computer sharing the internet connection)
    2. Go to 'Network' panel, and select the AirPort connection
    3. Under the 'TCP/IP' tab, change 'Configure IPv4' pull-down menu from 'Using DHCP' to 'Manually'.
    4. Enter an IP address between 10.0.2.2 and 10.0.2.256 (I randomly chose 10.0.2.40), a Subnet Mask of 255.255.255.0, and enter 10.0.2.1 in the Router box.
    5. Click "Apply now"
    The computer should now be connected to the network, and able to access the internet. If not, you may need to manually enter a DNS server - put '4.2.2.1' (or an IP for a DNS server provided by your ISP) into the 'DNS Servers' box.
    You need to do that process for each computer you're trying to connect to the shared network, making sure you enter a different IP Address for each.

  • Internet Sharing not connecting on PC

    How do I setup Internet Sharing so it works on XP or Vista. It can connect to it using a mac, but when i try to connect from PC (bootcamp) it does not work. I see the network, but I cannot connect. It doesn't ask me for any password or anything, it just doesn't work. If I try with another network it works...

    Are you saying that you cannot connect to the internet on either machine? Have you enabled specifically anything referred to as internet sharing on either machine. If you have, then disable it.

  • Connecting ipod touch to internet via internet sharing

    My MacPro was connected to the internet. My ipod touch showed that it was connected to the MacPro via internet sharing, but I could not get the ipod to complete the connection to the internet. I selected "Allow all incoming connections" in the MacPro system preferences>security>firewall and the ipod could see the internet. Success.

    If we wanted to open only individual ports (or a range of ports) rather than disabling the whole firewall, which ports would we leave open?
    TIA,
    George

  • IPad 2 connection through internet sharing

    This may be answered somewhere else on the discussions, but I would like some assistance in connecting an iPad 2 to the internet through an iMac that is connected through an Alltel wireless card.  In the iMac, I've turned Internet Sharing on, and the airport is also on.  What am I missing ? ? ?   Or is it not possible ? ? ?

    Jack:
    I wrote this on an earlier thread and it seemed to help another user so give it a try. Bold type is specific to you. Ignore anything you already know. I'm not sure if you can share the connection from a wireless connection (you CAN share from ethernet) but these are the steps and it may work.
    OK if you selected Internet Sharing on the Mac you must also select
    Share your Connection from - Ethernet (select ethernet) I think you would choose the Airport option since your are using a wireless card
    To Computers Using - Airport (your iPad is the computer using Airport in this case)
    Then you may have to select the Internet Sharing option again - put a checkmark in the box
    Then go to Security in your preferences and select Firewall - turn off the Firewall to allow incoming connections to your Mac
    Make sure you have Airport enabled on your Mac and go up to the Airport icon at the top of the screen, click on it, and drop down to select - Create Network. A box will come up and it should offer your computer's name as the default network name. You can name the network whatever you like. Then create a password.
    This should be what you need to do to get connected. Once you do all of the steps on the Mac, reboot your iPad, go to Settings>WiFi>Network and select your new network.
    Message was edited by: Demo

Maybe you are looking for