Mavericks Internet Sharing requiring restarts

Don't know if it was random, but this could be the solution.

After setting up the network directly from the settings->sharing (clicking on wi-fi option, on the bottom right corner) it worked without problems.

So the procedure changes a bit (I come from snow leopard). Instead of setting up your network from the wi-fi icon, you have to go to settings->sharing

Hi.

I've never used Mountain Lion. As I said before, I jumped from Snow Leopard to Mavericks. I've never encountered problems 1 and 2.

Besides, what I had was exactly the 3 problem.

Here is how I solved it, instead of creating the network from the toolbar, as I was used to do before, here is exactly the procedure I use now (tested many times and it always work, at least for me).

1) Activate Wi-fi from the toolbar

2) Go to the Sharing options (the second window you have posted) and BEFORE clicking on the internet sharing tickbox, click on the bottom right button "Wi-Fi options" and create your network from there. I don't know if it changes something, but I always set up a 40-bit WEP key.

Also, on the list of devices on the right, I have selected only the Wi-Fi tickbox

3) Now, check the tickbox

this should at least fix your third problem (it did in my case).

If you still have the 1 and 2 problems, I don't know how to help you sorry. I can only suggest you to:

1) repair the permission of your disk on disk Utility.

2) Erase the pairing with your computer wi-fi on the device where it poses problem and re do it.

Good luck

Hi

I think I solved this!

I had to delete my original (pre-upgrade to mavericks) wifi internet sharing password in my keychain. Then reboot. Then recreate the same password again from the sharing/internet sharing/wifi options. Once I did this a stable sharing connection between all my devices resumed.

Give it a try.

I'm running into precisely the same problem. Clearly Apple hasn't been hiring the right beta testers.

I'm having the same exact problem! I use my computer to connect my Xbox to the internet, and it keeps disconnecting from Xbox Live! The problem never happened on Mountain Lion.

LBJ_UK

How did you find which password in the keychain that was the correct one for the sharing?? I've gone through it several times and can't figure which password it might be.

Open the Keychain Access app (utilities in Apps folder or in other folder in launchpad).

IF you set a password for sharing the internet connection from that mac previously there should be a keychain save of that password. For some reason mine is called "en2" which may relate to ports as I am sharing from a mac pro with twin ethernets and sharing from wifi. The Kind of keychain item is Internet-sharing password residing on the Airport account.

Anyway, don't worry about the name just search for "internet-sharing" of fragment thereof. This will pick up the keychain item regardless of name if it exists.

I found that the prior 10.8 keychain item was present, dated 5/10 (time of last password change) and it didn't matter what I did in Mavericks this Keychain item would not modify or update, even when I changed sharing settings. After I deleted the Keychain item and rebooted I had to set up the password again in the System Pref pane/sharing/internet sharing/wifi/wifi options box. The Keychain item was recreated with yesterday's date. And we have been working better than ever since.

TBH 10.9 seems to need less enable/disable cycles on the sharing via wifi to maintain the connection, which was always an issue on earlier OSX versions.

Thanks LBJ_UK!

I found an "en1" - deleted it and I tried this time without password and it worked at once.

Thanks for the help!

No problem. Glad to help.

Hi I recently upgraded to mavericks, but the problem that I encountered is that once I turn on internet sharing, something will block the network connection and so I can neither use internet on my mac nor share any internet. Does anyone have the same problem or know what I can do to solve this?

I am having the same issue. The number three in @mikeghali's post, where the arrow shows up for a half second (if at all), and then it just tries to search for wifi. It's especially strange because for the last week, mavericks has had no trouble creating a shared network. I've tried all the troubleshoots in this thread with no success. Trying to get my ipad mini on shared network via macbook's ethernet. I didn't have a previous password before I upgraded, so there was no file to delete/ reset. I tried deleting my preferences files from in my user Library, which has worked for various wifi problems I've had before. (specifically: com.apple.internetconfig.plist and com.apple.system.preferences.plist). That didn't do anything. Restarts haven't worked so far, and neither has logging out and back in. This just inspired me to log into another user. Let me see if that will work. BRB

So, the other user has the same issue. No luck there.

Additionally, I've tried changing the wifi options --> channels, to at least 5 different channels with no success. It seems this problem is relatively common with the recent update, and it's so recent that there is not a definitive answer to this problem. I'd love some input from an Apple representative, or it to be addressed in their next software update, which will hopefully come soon!

TLDR: Upgraded to Mavericks. Ethernet sharing worked fine. A week later, SNAFU. Nothing fixes it.

That worked for me as well.
I've successfully restored wifi sharing on two iMac.
Thanks!
🙂

Another "worked for me". - thanks LBJ-UK.