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Comment on Create a Wi-Fi network between your Mac and iPhone by Julia

Julia — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:43:02 +0000

I tried this and not only did the wifi not work for my iPod Touch, but it didn’t work for my MacBook either. Maybe it works in some cases, but not mine.

Comment on Create a Wi-Fi network between your Mac and iPhone by Alexia Hopper

Alexia Hopper — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:11:34 +0000

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Comment on Create a Wi-Fi network between your Mac and iPhone by blah

blah — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:22:19 +0000

ugh… no internet when joined and doesnt work….

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Kevrell — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:07:23 +0000

Fell out of bed feeling down. This has birhegtned my day!

Comment on Create a Wi-Fi network between your Mac and iPhone by denis davydenko

denis davydenko — Tue, 24 May 2011 03:18:40 +0000

this all works great… until you want to make you iPhone to connect to internet via your mac AND your mac is not on ethernet, but on Wi-Fi. In this case you can pair your devices, however internet connection is lost.

I wanted to sniff HTTP traffic from my iPhone and was not able to make this work.

Comment on Have a better internet experience on the go! by Boxhead

Boxhead — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:35:35 +0000

Awesome,how manny things that we dont know in a simple accion.Great post

Comment on Create a Wi-Fi network between your Mac and iPhone by Logan Wiker

Logan Wiker — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:43:19 +0000

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Comment on Create a Wi-Fi network between your Mac and iPhone by allie

allie — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 21:02:40 +0000

Comment on Create a Wi-Fi network between your Mac and iPhone by Cerniuk

Cerniuk — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:20:10 +0000

And just try to turn it off…

It is a mess trying to turn off the Mac’s ad-hoc wifi networking. In a nutshell, unless your iPhone has been told to “forget” the network you created from your Mac, your Mac will keep the ad-hoc network running regardless of what you do from the Mac.

To turn off the ad-hoc network, because there is no ‘off’ button or ‘uncreate’, you must disconnect all devices from the network. If you are lucky, the network will just disappear from your menu.

If you are not lucky, you will need to verify that all devices, including any hackers that gained access, are off the wifi network you created. If just one is connected, the Mac keeps the network alive.

Then, after verifying that you have removed all devices of yours and any hackers as well and the network still remains active, you must join it again from the mac that created it.. then disconnect. This should tell the Mac that it is OK to shut the ad-hoc network down.

If it still remains after 2 minutes or so, you had better “Turn Airport Off” as either your Mac is malfunctioning or there is still something on your ad-hoc network. Maybe the hacker decided to stay on and keep chipping away at your Mac’s security. The Mac happily keeps the connection open for the hacker so you must manually shut your insecure wireless network down…

In short, would not recommend using Mac ad-hoc networking unless you are willing to deal with the inability to turn it off without a bunch of fuss. It is a hacker’s dream…

Comment on Create a Wi-Fi network between your Mac and iPhone by Lemuel

Lemuel — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:11:29 +0000

Awesome!! & too think I was driving down the road to MacVomits slow as all F@ck wireless for me iPhone!! This did the trick, switching on internet sharing in preferences should have been in the tutorial though, still thanks to Simon for mentioning it in the comments!! Props to you dude!!