[LGallay]

I am trying to share a DSL Internet connection via Airport. I am trying to use an IMac as the router and an Ibook on the wireless network.
The first time I tried it, with the DSL connected to the IBook and the IMac connect wirelessly, it worked fine. When I attached the DSL to the IMac and then tried to connect to the network via the IBook, no luck. The computers share a wireless network, so that works and I can share files, but not the Internet connection.
The DSL is Verizon.
Any suggestions?

[fergnetserv]

Have you turned internet sharing on on the iMac and shared the connection? This is done in the Sharing panel.

[LGallay]

Yes, I turned on sharing and also turned on wireless internet connection sharing.
Does not seem to work.

[ghporter]

It could be something as simple as not having the iMac running a PPPoE client to establish your DSL connection. I've always found using a computer as a router to be a pain; you have to have more than one computer on unless you're surfing on the router machine, the overhead can slow things down on that computer, and it gets kind of complex when you add more than one additional computer.

The fairly simple solution is to buy a wireless router. It will handle PPPoE for you, provide both wired and wireless connections, and keeps the various functions separate-computers simply act as computers while the router does all the sharing.

You can actually get a good wireless router for (I'm still amazed!) around $30! buy.com has it for $52 before a $20 rebate!

[mjarski15]

Originally posted by LGallay:
I am trying to share a DSL Internet connection via Airport. I am trying to use an IMac as the router and an Ibook on the wireless network.
The first time I tried it, with the DSL connected to the IBook and the IMac connect wirelessly, it worked fine. When I attached the DSL to the IMac and then tried to connect to the network via the IBook, no luck. The computers share a wireless network, so that works and I can share files, but not the Internet connection.
The DSL is Verizon.
Any suggestions?

Do you have the firewall turned on, on either computer? If so try turning it off of the computer that is sharing the internet and see what happens.

[dr_turgeon]

After Panther- The server name shows up and my card auto-connects to this network. I even get a great signal strength (about 70%)
However, I cannot get on the internet.

Same here. It think this is a dns or nat disconnect. I really don't know how to describe it but there is connection to the internet (and sharing) but web browsing won't work. Name resolution won't happen. I can ping dns though.