Creating a wireless ad-hoc network on a MacBook
Just another reason why I love my Macbook: We arrived at a new Hotel today, and although both Aimi and I needed to use the Internet, there was only one network port. I wondered how difficult it would be to share my Internet Connection with her via the Mac's wireless interface, but as with most things on the Mac, it turned out to be incredibly simple.
- Go to System Preferences > Sharing > Internet Sharing
- Choose share your connection from Built-in Ethernet to computers using Airport
- You may optionally want to click Airport Options to add WEP encryption or change the network name.
- Tick the Internet Sharing checkbox to enable it. By default, the network will be named after your computer's hostname. E.g. mine is called paul-macbook
