Unable to share my Airport network thru my Ethernet port

This used to work under 10.4
The option to share my Airport internet connection over ethernet has disappeared from my sharing control panel (the only option I'm given is "firewire".
It is conceivable that the ethernet cable has mysteriously stopped working but unlikely and even so the option should still be available (I don't have a firewire cable connected). Note: Network Utility shows that the ethernet cable is connected; the port is occasionally, though rarely, receiving packets but not sending.

Yes,
As an update, I borrowed a firewire cable, turned on sharing of my Airport and made the connection. The client machine is able to detect both connections (the firewire and the ethernet). however, it never received a DHCP cert. so even though I had the satisfaction of seeing the control panel displaying a successful share, this was no more effective than the ethernet. I still think it is highly suspect that the ethernet option is missing when trying to share my airport connection but there is obviously more here. Is there an easy way to reset/restore my settings (something is clearly not right here). Also I borrowed a buddies macbook pro and all worked as it is supposed to so the problem is definitely not with the client but with my mac.
If it helps to understand my level of experience. I used to teach classes on XML and XSL/XSL-T, I've looked at some of the relevant plists (hoping they'd be more self explanatory than they were). I'm not going to try to edit any of this without understanding what the fields do and I'm far from a Unix expert but given guidance I'm not likely to screw up editing or replacing some files if that will fix the problem.
I'm going to try the Genus bar in the morning but I'm not really optimistic -- I respect the Genus bar guys but I also sense this is beyond the depth of their style of support.
Maybe I should just reinstall the OS but I'm not looking forward to that and I'm not convinced that the problem isn't in the user space in which case I'd have wasted a lot of time for nothing.

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I've been trying to connect my TC wireless to a D-Link router/cable modem provided by Virgin Media. I have successfully enabled the TC to join my wireless network, and can successfully print from my USB printer, and back up my laptop using Time Machine.
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So, can anyone confirm that connecting a TC wirelessly via "join a wireless network" disables the Ethernet ports?
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I have a older airport express that I am trying to you to share the internet with a Marantz AV receiver. I used to be able to share the internet to a PS2 a few years back.
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I am unsure if this is the limitation that apple has introduced to the unit, or it is a Telstra firewall issue.
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The older airport extreme I just pulled down from the cupboard trying to get the AVR connected.
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Still curious why I cannot connect using the airport express.
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I have DSL to my tower with an 802.11N Airport card, I used the Airport Utility to 'make a new network' with an Airport Express 802.11N connected to my home theatre, and it works fine streaming iTunes.
The cable co. makes you register the MAC address of the machine that will be served by the DSL modem, and allows up to two other addresses if phoned in otherwise any other MAC address attached direct to the DSL will not get a signal.
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The previous generation of Express used to be able to allow you to plug in a PDA with an ethernet card and be serving the ethernet, what is the problem with continuing that on the newest version? I see no point in being tied down to where ever the cable co. installed the modem just to use my PDA on the net, or cart the tower around the house to PDA connect to.
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Is there a way to make the port serve outgoing internet signal grabbed wirelessly from the tower?
Mucho appreciato if someone could suggest what is up.

No no, not an unsecure network, Im saying once the basic Assisted setup was followed in the previous OS 10.4 for Airport, you could go back in manually and set things to WDS which supposedly was the only way to go CableModem~Tower~Airport to Express~out express ethernet port to wired only machine.
Ive tried doing it that way for this newer Airport Utility and its frustrating as blankity, the only way to make a wireless network is between the tower's airport card to the express, you cant make just a network with the built in Tower Card at all. Then you could force the express to join it, otherwise it wont work.
I tried the WDS Main/Remote/Relay settings both ways with the Airport ID addresses for the tower AND express, switching them hoping one works, all I get is infinite loop of having to reenter the airport setup password when the express is updated and rebooted.
It wasnt this intricate before, is all Im saying. All it took was setting to WDS mode after going thru basic setup, checkmarking the box, updating the unit, restarting and there, the express served the wired client through the ethernet port.

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Since January, I've had my older g/b model of airport express set to "join the network," which is an 802.11n airport extreme connected to my cable modem. Until last week, the ethernet port of the airport express could be used to connect in my DVD player or TV. I could do software updates on the DVD player, and watch youtube on the TV, etc. The connection became slow last week, so I decided to reconfigure the airports. Since then, the ethernet connection to the airport express is no longer recognized.
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I know that it is possible with the newer airport express version coz a friend has it setup. But I could not make it work with the AE 2004.
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dirk2gently, welcome to the discussion area!
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Forgive the book I've written below, please. I generally think too much info is better than not enough... I'm looking for assistance and/or suggestions since I have been unable to locate solutions on my own so far. Searching this forum has found a great number of "sort-of" related things, but all of them so far appear to involve apple-only hardware or upstream network devices which have ethernet ports. Nothing that seems to match my situation enough to extrapolate out. Maybe I'm just using the wrong keywords. Anyway....
I've recently moved to a particularly rural area with no wired internet access to speak of (well, I suppose there is dial-up, but... yeah). I've tried several different wireless varieties including satellite, the AT&T Elevate 4G hotspot and a service that used an EVDO-cellular solution(a sprint-based reseller). The former had serious latency issues which I had predicted and so was right-out. The last had signal coverage problems which their maps did not accurately reveal. Their potential mitigation was to have me invest even more money into a super-mega antenna to be roof-mounted. And even that was an uncertain fix. The AT&T solution with the 4G hotspot has been AMAZING so far and I love it. Coverage is great, latency and bandwidth fantastic.
I love it but for one exception, that is. Connectivity options.
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I have an Airport Extreme that I was using as my primary connection point through a FiOS router at my previous home(and both the satellite and EVDO modems at the new place). Never had any problems with it when feeding its WAN port with one of the various routers' LAN ports. However, as has been evident by reading all sorts of posts here and elsewhere, having it connect via WiFi to the Elevate means that the ethernet ports are disabled. Not terribly useful.
The Elevate has no ethernet ports. Only WiFi and USB network connectivity.
The Elevate does not appear to have settings available to create a WDS network-- so it cannot be "Extended" via those methods, either, as far as I am able to tell.
So these are some thoughts I've had. Before I invest the time and money into them(both of which are in extremely short supply lately), I'd like to know if anyone else has already solved the issue or can tell me definitively whether these ideas, or some I haven't thought of, will or won't work. Any helpful feedback or thoughts would be sincerely appreciated.
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Apple Aiport Extreme base station
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Please, tell me your thoughts?

Had the same issue here. Here is the best solution I have found so far:
Hotspot + Pepwave Max On-The-Go (w/ Load Balancing) + Airport Extreme
I have a VZW MiFi, but I believe this set-up will work with other hotspot devices. I actually have 2 MiFi Hotspots with a monthly allowance of 20G each. They are plugged directly into the Pepwave router (aka, tethered). (Note: you have to have the right cable to do this. The one that came with my Hotspot was only for charging.) If, for some reason, you cannot tether with your Hotspot device, you want a router that offers WiFi as WAN. The Pepwave will do this. The Pepwave is connected to my Airport Extreme via ethernet cable. I have the WiFi on the MiFis and the Pepwave turned off. So the only visible network is my Airport Extreme. The Pepwave is essentially just functioning as a modem.
I used to have a Cradlepoint, but I did not find it very user friendly--too complex for home use. The Pepwave Max OTG is awesome. I got the one with Load Balancing so it allows you to connect up to 4 cellular devices. If you only need the one Hotspot, you can just get the cheaper Pepwave Max OTG. The Pepwave allows me to run off one of the MiFis until I hit my 20G/month allowance, then it automatically switches to the other one. That way I never max-out on my monthly data allowance. Additionally, it gives you a real-time, hourly, daily and monthly running tally on data usage.
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An increasing number of hotels are now charging for every device that you use to connect to the Internet. I am travelling to India next week for work and the hotel I am staying at has this policy. I have not discovered a way of sharing a Wifi account between several devices. I travel with an iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air.
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This is why I travel with 2 AirPort Express devices.
For hotels with wireless only....one Express is configured to "join" the hotel wireless network and it provides an Ethernet signal to the second Express which is configured to "create" a wireless network for multiple devices.
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Under the wireless settings for the TIme Capsule, make sure that there is a check mark next to "Allow this network to be extended"
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