Video Tip: Share internet from your computer, Mac

February 18, 2016

See how you can share internet from Mac on your other devices

We all know how we can activate the personal hotspot on our iOS device. Today, we will see how we can share internet from our Mac computer to other devices, whether they are laptops or smartphones.

Click "" > System Preferences > Sharing > (options on the left) Internet Sharing. On the right, we first select our "source", i.e. the way our computer receives the data. And below that, we choose how we want to transmit it.

Here we should note that the way our computer receives the data (source) should be different from the way it transmits it. A realistic and useful example is the following:

Select the ethernet port as the source (if there is wired access)
And as a mode of transmission, Wi-Fi
"Tick" the "Network Sharing" option on the left and select "Start" in the dialog box that will pop up.
In this way, we create a hotspot network, just like we would on our iPhone.

In the example in the video below, because there was no access to a wired network, we chose to have our computer receive data from the iPhone wired (via USB). In this case, we need to have the personal hotspot option enabled in iPhone us.

We could also receive the data via Wi-Fi from our router and relay them through the ethernet port to another computer, such as a laptop with a faulty Wi-Fi chip.

See at video below, the actions we need to take to activate the service "Internet Sharing" of OS X.