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29 Oct, 2007

iPod Touch and iPhone Don’t Play Nice with Apple WiFi Sharing

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Ipod Touch| iPod

Since my coworker Dan got his Apple iPhone, I have been trying to share my cell connection on my Macbook Pro laptop with him via WiFi. Since I got my Apple iPod Touch my efforts have doubled. The problem is that it just doesn’t work!

You would think that Apples to Apples (heh) it would work just fine. I share the connection with the sharing control panel. It doesn’t matter if I use open or encrypted connections, the devices connect, they just will not browse the web.

I am not sure what the problem is exactly but two out of two leads me to think this must be an issue.

I have tried using different channels and changing around the WiFi settings 10 ways from Sunday with no luck.

I have managed to get it working once un-encrypted, but as soon as I tried to enable WEP, it died again. BUMMER! I should be able to walk around the office and chat and surf with my iPod Touch to my heart’s content but alas, nada.

3 Responses to "iPod Touch and iPhone Don’t Play Nice with Apple WiFi Sharing"

1 | Dom

October 29th, 2007 at 3:12 pm

Jason,
You’ve probably got this, but assuming you’ve got your phone acting as a bluetooth modem, in the Sharing pane in System Prefs, under Internet, you should have Bluetooth selected in the drop down menu, and then have Airport selected in the To computers using: list. Then just setting your Airport options should complete it.

Can his iPod Touch actually join your adhoc network? Does it get a valid IP?

Be interested to know if you get it working. Good luck

November 4th, 2007 at 10:05 am

Same problem. I can share out my Power Mac (10.4.11 Early release beta) Ethernet connection to WiFi (encrypted or open) but to my Macbook Pro (Leopard) it just will not work. I can connect the iPod Touch to about any other network, just not my adhoc MBP.

Oh well. File a bug report and move on I guess.

3 | David Clark

November 7th, 2007 at 8:56 pm

Same problem here.. I found this while doing a google search to see what the deal is. You’d think both pieces of hardware being Apple that it’d actually work.

I’m trying to do this because my wireless router doesn’t play nice with apple hardware for some reason. Oh well. Even apple hardware doesn’t play nice, so I can’t say that I blame Linksys.

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