How to share my Snow Leopard Mac's connection to my HTC Desire running Android?
I have an HTC Desire that currently cannot connect to the internet and a Mac that can. I want the HTC Desire to be able to connect to the internet.
My Mac (running Snow Leopard 10.6.6) is connected to the internet over Wi-Fi. Now I want to share my Mac's internet connection with my HTC Desire (Android 2.2).
On my HTC Desire I don't have root access. On my Mac I have super user access.
Can I share my internet connection? If it doesn't work with a Mac can i get this to work with Windows?
I do have a jailbroken iPod touch 2g with iOS 4.0, if the helps with any of this.
Solution 1:
- Use Jailbroken iPod 2G to spoof the Mac MAC address, so your iPod is now online.
- Tether the Mac to the iPod and use PdaNET or MyWi on the iPod so that your Mac is online through your tethered iPod
- On the Mac, set up Internet Sharing, and share your existing connection from the tether to a WiFi network
- On the HTC, connect to the WiFi network.
Schematic:
Internet > (Wireless) > iPod > (Tether) > Mac > (Wireless) > HTC
Solution 2:
OK so you need to connect to the internet via your MacBook to get around a MAC filter on your router. You can share your MacBooks connection but it would need to be plugged into the router.
I don't think it's possible to do it like this:
HTC >> WiFi >> MacBook >> WiFi >> router
You need to do it like this instead:
HTC >> WiFi >> MacBook >> Ethernet >> router
So you plug the MacBook into the router and connect to that from your phone over WiFi. You can do this as follows:
- Choose Apple > System Preferences, and then click Sharing.
- Select Internet Sharing.
- Choose a network service from the “Share your connection from” pop-up menu, Ethernet for example in your case.
- Select a networking service to share your Internet connection from the “To computers using” list, AirPort for example.
- Click AirPort Options and give your network a name and password.
- Connect to your MacBook over the WiFi network you just set up.