Sharing internet over USB-- how hard?

[Winston]

Black wrote:
Thanks.
No wireless in her modem.

While some modems do have wireless, that's not what I was referring to. When Earthlink gave us a new modem to fix some connection issues the new modem came with a built in wired router. Caused me some confusion until I figured that out, since we had a router in the mix with the old modem.

If her computer is not having to do a PPPoE connection (see the ethernet settings in the Network pane of System Preferences) then the modem probably has a router in it which is doing PPPoE and can connect multiple Macs. But you'd still need an ethernet switch to give you another ethernet jack, so no joy in your current situation. The old router would you have would also probably work with the routing disabled.


Good luck.

- Winston