Lion broke macbook airport hotspot!
I used to regularly create a wifi hotspot with my macbook under "internet sharing" by enabling sharing share connection from "ethernet" to computers using "airport" to move files between my iphone and macbook, or to stream media to my ios devices.
However Lion has messed this up by waiting until an internet connection appears to create the wifi hotspot! The hole point is i may not have an internet connection/ wifi connection but i still need the wireless connection! I dont need the internet i just need the hostpot thats created!!!!!!
Im really annoyed because i used this everyday!
Any ideas on how to get around this? Or how to force the macbook to create a hotspot like it used to?
On a side note... OSX lion, massive fail in general apple, i wouldnt say its crap, just very pointless, and not as good as snow leapord, im kicking myslef for clicking "buy".
PS
Im about to try and shove an ethernet lead into the macbook and see if thatll trigger the hotspot without internet connection.
Thanks for any advice guys, and feel free to join in my bitvh about lion.
I dont think iv explained the problem very well. Let's start with an example. If I wanted to play a game on my iPhone with a friend in the room on an iPhone to iPhone one option would be to use the wifi in the house to connect the devices in order to play the game. In this situation i am using a wifi hotspot but not the Internet and not a pc/mac to pc/mac wireless network.
I want to use my laptop as a wifi hospot but not the Internet. Apps such as spotify presume that you have a wifi router in your house to transfer files through, (not over the internet just via your routers wifi) If you're not in the house, you need a different wifi network to do this and thats why you turn the MacBook into a wifi hotspot. Creating a wireless network is not the same thing it's a closed system used to transfer files between your macs and pcs. To use my example again, you wouldn't be able to play a multiplayer iPhone to iPhone (non Internet) wifi game over a pc/mac tp pc/mac wireless network that you set up on your mac, you need it to be a regular wifi hotspot.
The MacBook can no longer do this without an active Internet connection, because it doesn't trigger the wifi hotspot till it notices an active incoming Internet connection, (which I obviously don't have if I'm on a train).
I have just been on the phone with apple care and they admit that this is no longer possible in OSX Lion.
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