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Share wifi (not wired) using Macbook (connected to Wifi and want to share wifi)
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<blockquote data-quote="SteveJF" data-source="post: 1666561" data-attributes="member: 357314"><p><strong>Real world example of why this is needed</strong></p><p></p><p>I was in Europe in July of 2015 at a Marriott Renaissance. I paid for the wifi service. During a business meeting, several attendees who were not staying at the Renaissance needed wifi access, so I gave them my room number and name. They all connected just fine.</p><p></p><p>When I got back to my room, I tried to connect my iPad. I got an error message saying that I already had 6 connected devices and that no more connections were permitted. I hit the 6 device limit because of the logins by the meeting attendees.</p><p></p><p>My wife had yet to check in and I knew she would need wifi for her notebook. No problem, I thought, I'll just turn on Internet Sharing on my MacBook Pro and she can share my connection. My room did not have an Ethernet connection, so I was out of luck unless I wanted to use a Bluetooth PAN or a Thunderbolt Bridge. (Good luck to anyone who wants to struggle with the Bluetooth PAN. My iPad connected via Bluetooth PAN, my iPhone 6 would not)</p><p></p><p>To reset my connections from 6 to zero, the front desk clerk had to call iBahn (the wifi provider), iBahn had to call me in my room (which required that I wait in the room) to get the MAC address from my Pro, etc, etc. I was just fortunate that this all worked and everyone in the loop was savy enough to get the job done.</p><p></p><p>It would have been much, much easier if I could have simply shared my wifi connection to the hotel as a wifi connection from my Pro. I.e. the exact setup OS X allows if I had an Ethernet connection to the hotel.</p><p></p><p>The lingering question I have is whether I can simply setup a USB wifi adapter as the simple solution to this. I.e. use the USB wifi adapter to connect to the hotel's internet then use the Pro's built in wifi adapter to share the internet connection with other devices. Some responses on the net say "No." Others say "Yes." This is further compounded by some adapter manufacturers stating that their adapters will not support an "Ad Hoc" network on a Mac. I don't know if the Ad Hoc issue is even relevant to my desire to share a wifi connection just like I can use my Pro's wifi adapter to share the internet if I use an Ethernet connection to the hotel internet.</p><p></p><p>Hopefully people are still on this and can weigh in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SteveJF, post: 1666561, member: 357314"] [b]Real world example of why this is needed[/b] I was in Europe in July of 2015 at a Marriott Renaissance. I paid for the wifi service. During a business meeting, several attendees who were not staying at the Renaissance needed wifi access, so I gave them my room number and name. They all connected just fine. When I got back to my room, I tried to connect my iPad. I got an error message saying that I already had 6 connected devices and that no more connections were permitted. I hit the 6 device limit because of the logins by the meeting attendees. My wife had yet to check in and I knew she would need wifi for her notebook. No problem, I thought, I'll just turn on Internet Sharing on my MacBook Pro and she can share my connection. My room did not have an Ethernet connection, so I was out of luck unless I wanted to use a Bluetooth PAN or a Thunderbolt Bridge. (Good luck to anyone who wants to struggle with the Bluetooth PAN. My iPad connected via Bluetooth PAN, my iPhone 6 would not) To reset my connections from 6 to zero, the front desk clerk had to call iBahn (the wifi provider), iBahn had to call me in my room (which required that I wait in the room) to get the MAC address from my Pro, etc, etc. I was just fortunate that this all worked and everyone in the loop was savy enough to get the job done. It would have been much, much easier if I could have simply shared my wifi connection to the hotel as a wifi connection from my Pro. I.e. the exact setup OS X allows if I had an Ethernet connection to the hotel. The lingering question I have is whether I can simply setup a USB wifi adapter as the simple solution to this. I.e. use the USB wifi adapter to connect to the hotel's internet then use the Pro's built in wifi adapter to share the internet connection with other devices. Some responses on the net say "No." Others say "Yes." This is further compounded by some adapter manufacturers stating that their adapters will not support an "Ad Hoc" network on a Mac. I don't know if the Ad Hoc issue is even relevant to my desire to share a wifi connection just like I can use my Pro's wifi adapter to share the internet if I use an Ethernet connection to the hotel internet. Hopefully people are still on this and can weigh in. [/QUOTE]
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