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Can a Macbook send out wifi?

Asked by meagan (4675points) June 22nd, 2011

I’ve got a device that requires the WEP setting on wifi. However, I’m moving soon and won’t be using my own wifi router, and won’t be able to change the settings.

Is there a way that I could connect to the local router wifi from my laptop, and then send out a WEP wifi signal from MY computer, for the device to connect to?

I wasn’t sure if there might be a gadget I could buy, or maybe by some miracle there could be a program I could use.

Thanks!

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jrpowell's avatar

If your connection is from something else like Ethernet or USB you can send that out over WiFi in the Sharing section of System Preferences.

In the screenshot I am using a USB WiFi thing and sharing via ethernet to my Apple TV. But you can share with wifi to as long as wifi isn’t your source.

jrpowell's avatar

I kinda missed the point of your question. If you get your signal from wifi you can use that and route that to a cheap router (I suggest Netgear) with ethernet. That way you can control all the settings.

koanhead's avatar

In order to do this you would need two wifi adapters in the laptop- one to connect to the router in Managed mode and one to provide, in Master mode, a WEP connection to your device.

Technically this could be made to work in Ad-Hoc mode, but not all wifi devices support Ad-Hoc mode and of course you’d have to reconfigure all three even if they did.

So yes, if you go and buy a USB wifi adapter (one with MacOS support of course) then you should be able to make this work using @johnpowell‘s advice.

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