Mobile Broadband Dongle + Mac Internet Sharing

[matt960]

I'm connected to the internet using a vodaphone mobile broadband dongle.

I would like to be able to share the connection to my other devices using Mac OS's built-in internet sharing feature.

Problem seems to be that the dongle connects to the internet using the 'Vodaphone Mobile Broadband' app without registering the connection in the mac network preferences panel so when I try to share the connection via wifi, the mac doesn't know how to share the connection.

Is this possible? - I've never had a problem sharing connections before until now. Usually, the mobile-network is available in the mac network prefs for sharing but not while using the vodaphone app to connect.

Any ideas how to get it working?

Cheers

1: Internet sharing is set to share the USB dongle device's connection via wifi:

2. BUT in the network preferences pane, the attached (and internet-connected) vodaphone modem is not recognised so internet sharing won't share the connection

 

[Retired-James]

Hi matt960,

If you can let us know what happens when you are back in the office, we can take another look at this for you.

James

[headcheese]

Hello,

The at commands were proving a mission, so one of my colleagues very kindly looked into this.

All you should need to do is, connect via VMB (which will give you the 2G/3G switching options), then select my mobile device to share and create an ad-hoc Wi-Fi network to which other devices can connect, all within the Sharing options.

In the first screen shot that you provided right at the top of this post, you have it all set up correctly, but in the pane towards the bottom right hand corner (sharing) you'd need to select via WiFi.

This way, you're using VMB to connect (thus keepign the 2G/3G switching options) and then sharing the conenction provided by the USB modem and VMB. Which shoudl give you all that you need.

I appreciate that this is in part what you were havign a problem with, but we tested it on a couple of macs here and it all worked fine. They were both running Mac OS 10.8.3 if that's any help.

Let us know how you get on.

Cheers

HC