Quick Tip: Share your Ethernet internet using WiFi

In this Quick Tip we will show you how to share your internet Connection on your mac. If you find yourself in a situation where you have two computers that need to connect to the internet but only one Ethernet cable Macs make it very easy to Share between the two. I have used this in offices and hotel rooms that only have one Ethernet hookup but you have two people that want to get online.

To do this click on the Sharing icon in System Preferences

Then click on Internet Sharing in the list. We will setup the options first so don’t click the check box until we are ready to turn it on. You should see something like this:

We are going to Share your connection from Built-in Ethernet to Computers using Airport. If you click Airport Options you can name the wifi netowrk you are making and set a password. The options page will look like this:

Once all the options are set click the check box to Turn Internet Sharing On. The Airport icon in your menu bar will change to show that you are sharing your internet connection via Airport/WiFi.