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Old 05-09-2014, 12:59 PM
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Question Possible to turn Macbook Air into wireless NIC for desktop?

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Old 05-09-2014, 01:56 PM
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What do you want to do? Connect your desktop to your mac to get wireless?

If so, why not just setup your mac as a router and connect to it that way?
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Old 05-09-2014, 02:00 PM
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Yes. Desktop wireless card is awful so I have this pretty nice PC just sitting here as I play on my tiny laptop lol. I didn't know I could turn my laptop into a router! Makes sense I guess. Will look into it hehe.

Do you know if it's even possible without the ethernet (or whatever) ports? Maybe a USB converter thing would fix that problem.
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Old 05-09-2014, 02:36 PM
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An alternative is to get a USB network card for 10-20 bucks depending if you get one with an antenna thing. I have one and it has better speeds than internal board of another desktop as well as my laptops

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003MT...&pi=SX200_QL40

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00416...110_SY165_QL70
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Old 05-09-2014, 02:37 PM
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An alternative is to get a USB network card for 10-20 bucks depending if you get one with an antenna thing. I have one and it has better speeds than internal board of another desktop as well as my laptops
Those stupid things never work properly. They always drop the connection frequently for no reason. Tried a few [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
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Old 05-09-2014, 02:41 PM
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sucks. my only problem has been the cats playin with it
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Old 05-09-2014, 03:04 PM
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Do you have an ethernet port for the mac?

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Anyways if you do, should be able to use similar to Windows ICS.

http://www.maclife.com/article/howto...ction_ethernet


Note: all of this was posted without owning any apple product. Good luck!
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Old 05-09-2014, 03:16 PM
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im not sure about macintrash, but windows has this capability built in since xp at least. since apple's strategy has always been to copy their competition, i would only assume that there is a way to do this.
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Old 05-09-2014, 03:31 PM
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I got a Steve Jobs in my Civilization 5 game the other night.

He was a Great Merchant, not a Great Engineer :T
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Old 05-09-2014, 03:51 PM
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hahahah!
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