Wifi connection to Mac using Internet Sharing

[pjdavids2123]

Hi all,
I am a real novice but have spent a lot of time looking at this stuff and am completely baffled--it seems solvable though.
I am studying abroad in Europe and my dorm room comes equipped with ethernet. As part of my orientation materials I got a packet with my internet info (i.p. address range, subnet mask, router i.p., DNS servers, and search domains). Since I wasn't able to connect to the internet using DHCP I just plugged all this info in manually. This worked great, my internet is fast and reliable.
The problem comes when I try internet sharing with my iPhone; it has no problem finding the network and even connecting to it, but I can't access the internet (it just times out after a while). This problem occurs using DHCP or a static i.p. on the iPhone. My thinking is that I could get on using a static i.p. if I only knew what addresses to use.
Any ideas or pushes in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Mrbobb]

Where you are studying, the Ukraine? Who use static IP in 2013?

Am going to guess what u missing is the GATEWAY parameter. Gateway = to get to the Internet, go through this door. If this is the case, you can ping nearby devices (same subnet) but unable to ping anybody on the Internet.

 

[KeepCalmPeople]

You might have better luck posting this in the Mac subforum - it seems to me that this is most likely an issue with the Internet sharing settings on the Mac.

 

[pjdavids2123]

@KeepCalmPeople--Thanks a bunch, I just posted it there too.

@Mrbobb--The whole static IP thing seemed weird to me too... any idea how/where i would enter the gateway parameter if I could somehow track it down?