Sharing Your Internet Connection

A nifty feature of the OS X Sharing preference pane is the ability to share an Internet connection between more than one Mac. Under the Internet pane, you choose what connection of yours other Macs share from, and what connections of your Mac they can connect to. For example, if you are using a Bluetooth cell phone to give your laptop an Internet connection, you specify that you are sharing from a Bluetooth modem. If you have an AirPort card, you can allow other Macs to wirelessly connect to your Mac, and therefore share your Bluetooth Internet connection among them, over a self-created AirPort network. To do this, choose to share your connection from your Bluetooth modem, and check the box next to the AirPort connection that shows up in the To computers using list, shown in Figure 10-25. This is but one of many different possibilities.

Figure 10-25: Share your Internet connection with other Macs.