Turn Your Mac into a WiFi Hotspot

How To Turn Your Mac into a WiFi Hotspot. Internet Sharing by Turning Your Mac into a WiFi Hotspot.

Share Internet Connection of Mac to your iDevices, like iPhone and iPad by Creating a WiFi Hotspot.

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In this episode, How To Turn Your Mac into a WiFi Hotspot.

For what ever reasons, you might want to turn your Mac into a WiFi Hotspot. In order to do so, your Mac has to be connected to a wired ethernet connection.

An example where I’ve found this useful, is when the hotel room that I’m staying in, is equipped with an ethernet port, and as I always travel with a mini ethernet cable, I’m able to setup a WiFi hotspot on my Mac for my devices, like my iPhone and iPad.

Straight to a demo.

Soooooo, Let's Get Started.

Once an ethernet connection has been established for your Mac, creating a WiFi hotspot, is a relatively easy process.

Simply open System Preferences and click on the Sharing icon.

Now, if you’re logged in as a Standard user, click on the padlock, where you’ll need to enter your Admin user name and password to proceed. Alternatively if logged in as an Admin user, no padlock will be visible.

Next, click on the Internet Sharing  option, shown here. Then click on Wi-Fi.

Now click on the Wi-Fi Options… button to configure your WiFi hotspot.

By default, the Network Name, also known as your SSID, uses your Mac Computer Name, which you can change at anytime. I’ll change mine to MacStudioA Hotspot.

Leave Channel number to whatever is shown in your case and then click on the Security dropdown list and select WPA2 Personal, and enter a Password that you’ll need to enter when connecting your devices.

Once you’ve finished configuring your WiFi hotspot, click on the OK button to confirm.

You’ll then be presented with a dropdown dialogue box to turn on Internet Sharing. Click the Start button to activate your WiFi hotspot.

Now simply connect your devices to your WiFi Hotspot.

Anytime you want to turn off the WiFi hotspot, simply open System Preferences and uncheck Internet Sharing.

And that’s all there is to it.

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