MacBook Air as a hotspot through 3G dongle

Hi, I have a MacBook Air 13" , I'm using a 3G dongle, how can I turn my MacBook into a hotspot through this dongle and use my iPad and iphone5 to connect to Internet via my MacBook Air

Clone it using Carbon Copy Cloner. Here's the link:
http://www.bombich.com/
Then to move it to the MBair and boot the Air holding down the Option key between the startup tone and the Logo / pinwheel.
The boot manager will start and then select the external drive as the boot device.
First some qualifying questions:
1. What OSx release is on your other Mac.
2. What MBair do you have.
I want to make sure the OS you're going to clone is more recent then the OSx that your MBair originally shipped with.

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MacBook Air as a hotspot through 3G dongle

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