Is There A Way To Trick My MacBook Pro Into Thinking It's on Ethernet??

[rmbrown09]

So I have OnLive, which if you don't know what that means, take a nice read here.

http://www.onlive.com/

Anyway, the gist is that you can play almost any game, playable on a mac or no, max settings from another host computer. My MacBook Pro can now play Crysis maximum settings, in OSx.

So, to do this you need a minimum of 5mb/s and as you can see by my speed test result, I far exceed this.
Here is my speedtest.net results.(yes this was a wifi test)

Can I do something with the Terminal, or otherwise to get my MBP or at least OnLive to think I am on Ethernet and avoid this>>>

 

[spinnerlys]

What do you mean with "5 minimum"? Ping, upload or download speed, ...?

How to fake ethernet and use Wifi...OnLive

via MRoogle "onlive ethernet"

 

[rmbrown09]

What do you mean with "5 minimum"? Ping, upload or download speed, ...?

How to fake ethernet and use Wifi...OnLive

via MRoogle "onlive ethernet"

It wants a 5mb/s download speed
thanks for the link

Edit; seems that neither of those threads have an answer either.

 

[spinnerlys]

It wants a 5mb/s download speed
thanks for the link

Edit; seems that neither of those threads have an answer either.

MB/s (MegaByte per second) or Mb/s (MegaBit per second)?

5MB/s would be quite a requirement, thus the need for at least a cabled 1000 Mbit connection or an 802.11n wireless connection, but I doubt they want 5MB/s, unless it is a widespread phenomenon for ISPs to offer such speeds.

 

[rmbrown09]

MB/s (MegaByte per second) or Mb/s (MegaBit per second)?

5MB/s would be quite a requirement, thus the need for at least a cabled 1000 Mbit connection or an 802.11n wireless connection, but I doubt they want 5MB/s, unless it is a widespread phenomenon for ISPs to offer such speeds.

yes it's bit

 

[spinnerlys]

yes it's bit

If it's 5Mb/s, then that is only 625KB/s, which even 802.11g can provide. But as OnLive has those stupid requirements, you might not get around having a cabled ethernet connection, if you're serious about OnLive.

You exceed the 5Mb/s mark seven times, so why OnLive does not just take a look at that, is beyond me. Stupid dren.

 

[MBHockey]

If it's 5Mb/s, then that is only 625KB/s, which even 802.11g can provide. But as OnLive has those stupid requirements, you might not get around having a cabled ethernet connection, if you're serious about OnLive.

You exceed the 5Mb/s mark seven times, so why OnLive does not just take a look at that, is beyond me. Stupid dren.

Because connection quality is determined by more than just raw bandwidth. Wifi connections are notorious for dropping packets.

 

[SDub90]

What about running onlive in a VM? I'm pretty sure the bridged network appears as an ethernet connection within the VM.

 

[rmbrown09]

What about running onlive in a VM? I'm pretty sure the bridged network appears as an ethernet connection within the VM.

True but i feel a VM could still suffer. I would probably just go bootcamp and use a utility that is out for Windows to do this.

I wish there was some way on mac.