How to share an internet connection with your Mac

Sometimes it’s useful to be able to share a wired internet connection from your Mac to other computers or devices wirelessly. Let’s say you want to browse the internet over WiFi with your iPhone at home, but you don’t want to buy a wireless router yet. Or maybe you have a game console with which you want to play games online, but again, don’t want to buy a router yet. Thankfully, there is an easy way to do this (and a hard way).

Head past the break for both procedures.