OS X Lion internet sharing is so slow on iPad

I had an experience of the Internet stopping when I used a channel number that conflicted with some other device on the network. I would start Internet sharing and the internet would stop on all devices. In the os help text it mentions a problem with conflicts. I changed channel and on the wifi settings on the Internet Sharing menu and the problem stopped. Try different channels to see if that is the problem.

This is terrible! I am very upset because of WiFi (Lion OS)! All computers (MacBook, MacBook Pro, iPad)of my family were left without internet! Home Internet network has disappeared, because it can not install!When Apple will release patches and updates?? In Leopard no problems with WiFi was not! Leo - this is crude product is! We regret that we install the Lion! Too bad we'll have to spend money to buy an external drive and carry it all the information from the computers to go back to Snow Leo 😠

Hi,

After upgrading from Snow Leopard I found that internet sharing stopped working. The wi-fi connection that was configured on a windows XP machine would connect to the Mac; however, internet traffic was timing out.

Tried a few of things suggested in this thread to no avail.

Finally got it working tonight by changing the TCP-IP settings, under advanced, for the wi-fi network connection. Originally had as manually configured, changed to be "Using DHCP with manual address". Also, had to change the settings on the XP machine to say to get the IP address and domain address automatically; opposed to manually configuring the ip address.

Hopefully this will help somebody else :-).

Thank you to chalkiegeorge! You saved my life!

With Snow Leopard I had an IMac using a Three mobile internet dongle to access the internet and a Time Capsule and a MacBook Pro (running Lion) hooked up using Ethernet and Internet Sharing. This all worked very well using manual IP addresses.

It then stopped working after installing Lion on the iMac. I struggled for three hours and then came across chalkiegeorge's post. I simply changed the Ethernet config on the iMac to "DHCP with manual address" and all the other devices to DHCP and it now works perfectly...

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Thank you to chalkiegeorge!

I fixed the wifi connection problem just changed the Ethernet config on the iMac to "DHCP with manual address".

and it now works perfectly...

Umm whats number that I should put into? I just add some random number 192.168.1.xxx

Its ALMOST working because when I try connect with my iPod touch, its retrieveing my email. But strange, still cannot browsing through Safari or other apps that require internet connection.

I am experiencing the same problem. Internet sharing DOES NOT work with Lion 10.7.2! Its really a disaster, I am not interested any more in this OSX since I cant hook my IPAD. I want my money back or an answer from Apple stating when will this be solved. If you can, DO NOT upgrade!!!!!

Apple, this is really lowsy

I went through much diagnosis with apple. The bottom line, when my internet sharing stopped, it was just after a OS crash. The result was a corrupt file in the OS that we could not find (using various corruption-finding apps). We booted the macbook pro on another startup disk and internet sharing worked, proving that it was an OS issue, not a hardware issue. If you make a bootable USB copy of the OS, you can do the same.

The only fix was to clean the harddrive and reistall a clean OS copy, and the documents. Couldnt use timemachine copy of OS because that had the corrupt file on it too

Now it works

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Something strange when I change my Wi-Fi channel into channel 3. I could browse google.com but other site is totally dead. Stuck at loading. How could this bug is so messed up and until 10.7.2 Apple still not fixing this.

It finally worked.

Changing channel does work but not for all channels. The only one work for me is 36 so I suppose you need to try around.

Another thing is the encryption mode. I found my iPad keep complaining wrong password if I use 128 bit WEP. It only work using 40 bit. However, if I try to connect my Galaxy Tab, only 128 bit WEP works. So again, you may need to try all the combo and see which one for your device. If you try to connect multiple devices, good luck because of the strange behavior of OSX Lion's wifi setup.

FFS Apple its nearly nine months and this still doesn't work.

I just upgraded to Lion yesterday and only realised that none of my machines can now use the internet. Absolutely pathetic.

I can't rely on DHCP because I use a NAS with a fixed IP, a printer with a fixed IP etc.

Can Apple please forget about the iPad for two minutes and get this sorted please?

Same problem here. It worked perfectly 1-2 week, then just stoped. All gadgets see my sharing WiFi, but they can do nothing with it.

I changed the name once, and it helped. Now I have it again, but nothing helps (names/channels/passwords). It says something, like "the connection is failed: Connection timeout". That is REALY annoying.

But that's pretty cool, that not me alone have this problem. So, mb that is their fail and we just have to wait...

Same problem here. Tried changing channels, changing WEP passwords, tried changing the iMac's DHCP ethernet connection to manual, IP address, and nothing works. The iPod touch "sees" the shared wifi connection, but when I connect to it safari can't load a single page.

Very frustrating!

Has it crossed anyone's mind that this may be a dirty busness trick to make us buy their new airport express. I started having problams just arround the same time their new model of the devise came out. Seems odd to me very odd.

when you share you're inetrnet via wifi , go to wifi option under it and change chanle to 1 put it on secutirty WPA 2 with password then start sharing , it works for me , reduce ping from 700 to 87 😉.