![]() ![]() I’d used it myself plenty of times on the road, when paying for a hotel connection over Ethernet, and sharing via Wi-Fi on my laptop to access the Internet from other devices. Still, I knew that Internet Sharing over Wi-Fi worked. A kid with an Asus netbook could download free software and be through your WEP defenses in a few minutes. WEP isn’t just a last resort for encryption-it’s the worst resort. Never get into a fight at 2.4 billion cycles a second after insulting WEP’s robustness in a crowded RF environment.)Īnd worst of all, the software base station offers only WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption, a broken standard that’s been beaten so many times that there’s hardly a bone in its protocol body that’s not shattered. Even though Macs have shipped for years with both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi available, Internet Sharing only uses the weak-kneed 2.4 GHz band, prone to congestion and interference. Software base station is showing its age. ![]() The feature disappeared in Mac OS X, but was restored due to popular demand. ![]() The notion-and apparently some of the code-dates back more than a decade to when this feature was first added to Mac OS 8. Apple’s software base station makes its home in the Sharing system preference pane in the Internet Sharing service.
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