Okay, with that out of the way let's look at some of your options. Your Mac router has to be on anytime you want to use the Internet from another computer/device. Connecting your Mac through a NAT router to your cable model or DSL gives you an extra firewall protecting your Mac from the meanies out on the net. Now there are also some potential downsides to this as well, these include:
Like me you've burned out a cheap consumer router with a high number of connections (think bittorrent) and would rather give the Mac direct access to the net to eliminate NAT errors and/or improve bandwidth. You have an old Mac (or better yet Mac Mini) that you want to serve as a home server, so why not let it be your router as well? Like me you're a cheapskate and you don't want to drop $180 for an Airport Extreme Base Station (or even $50+ for a third-party 802.11 base station). Now before we begin, you might ask: why would I want to do this? Here's a few possible answers:
However, what if you want to do something a little bit more complicated? In this tutorial I'll cover some other ways for turning your Mac into a router, including over FireWire and adding a second ethernet port via USB (which can be really tricky). with a cable or DSL modem plugged into the built-in ethernet port), all you have to do is go to the Sharing pane of your System Preferences select it and hit start. For instance, if want to turn any Mac with a built-in Airport card into a wireless router (e.g. No doubt you know that sharing your internet connection on your Mac is easy.
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