My computer was a Snow Leopard 10.6.2 and since upgrading with the Maverick update I can no longer make my computer a hotspot. Do I need to re-install Snow Leopard to get that back?
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
You should still be able to. Note, the hot spot capability requires you be doing internet sharing over a different network than the one you are receiving the internet on. So in other words, the computer's internet must be hooked up via ethernet, bluetooth, or USB to share the internet via Airport wireless.
Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Sharing -> Internet Sharing needs to be checked and enabled.
That worked before, but now it isn't since I got the upgrade.
It would help to know more about your network. It would help to know:
What device is giving you internet to the machine that you want to be the sharer? Have you verified it is indeed getting the internet from that device, and not over a different standard?
How will the client machines be hooked up to the sharer?
a brody wrote:
It would help to know more about your network. It would help to know:
What device is giving you internet to the machine that you want to be the sharer? Have you verified it is indeed getting the internet from that device, and not over a different standard?
How will the client machines be hooked up to the sharer?
The iMac is getting internet from an Ethernet cable. It was definately this computer and it's ethernet. And I don't really know I would just be able to turn the sharing on and my iPhone would be able to connect with it after I plugged in the password I set to it.
Before upgrading I was able to make my computer a hotspot; now I can't. I want that ability back.
