Internet Sharing broken again with 10.6.8 update?
I have used Internet Sharing for years. (SysPrefs/Sharing/Internet Sharing/Share your connection from [Ethernet] to computers using [Airport]). It is very useful in my large old house, where my iMac is connected by an ethernet cable to a WiFi router in another part of the house; it gives me another WiFi zone without having to buy a WiFi extender.
This seems to be a forgotten feature in the OS (forgotten by Apple, that is). Several times in the last few years, it has "broken" ie ceased to work after an OS upgrade, and only worked again after either another upgrade to the OS or to Airport. The last time, upgrading to OS 10.6.7, it still worked but had an annoying but tolerable bug which required me to switch it off then on again after a restart.
I have just upgraded to 10.6.8 and it seems to be broken again. (iPad etc can see the network, pretend to join it, but don't actually connect to the internet).
Anyone else got the same problem?
Anyone at Apple reading this?
Maybe I should just go and buy another WiFi extender (they're a lot cheaper now) and stop trying to use my Mac to do this!
2.8GHz 24" iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.6), + 13" MBP + G1 Touch + iPad + iPhone 4