Difficult to get personal hotspot working, need 10 retries!

The hotspot creation from OSX was the main reason I upgraded to Yosemite. But for some reason, on my system. It would not always work. When I click on it from OSX's wifi menu, it will attempt to connect (with the rings flashing) but it then it would error out. To get it to work, I usually have to keep hitting over 10 times, and eventually it might work. How do I fix this?

Turn off you Wifi everywhere and try the following:
I found a solution to USB tethering problems since recent firmware upgrades and share that here in case anyone else is having the same issue:
Since the introduction of the firmware update 4.3.2 or somewhere thereabouts, and personal hotspot implementation, "Tether using USB" has disappeared from the menu.
Semantically, where they've put it makes no sense (except financially, from forcing frustrated former users of USB tethering to use the wifi personal hotspot, forget, and rack up data charges with their carriers) - USB tethering is hiding under "Personal Hotspot" and the listed instructions don't work unless certain conditions are met. The iPhone shows up as a digital camera only under My Computer in Windows 7 until I follow the list below.
Here's how I got it to work today. There may be better ways and you may not need to take all steps but if you're like me you just want to get it working and carry on. 
Solution: (assuming your iPhone is plugged in via USB, and Personal Hotspot is OFF (under Network | Personal Hotspot, and you're not connected to the Internet any other way....
0.     Close iTunes if it's open
1.    Turn Wifi off on your laptop
2.     Turn Wifi off on your iPhone
3.     Go into the Network | Personal Hotspot menu and turn P.H. on.
4.     I get a dialog querying whether I want to turn Wifi on, or to use USB or Bluetooth. Choose the second option
5.     Wait a little bit and it should find the device correctly and connect you to the internet. Verify with a web page.
Feel free to update or eliminate the list above and the assumptions but there you go, it works.
-Ian

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    Hi All,
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    huh,
    how dare u to inform m dat i messd up in m 1st evr que on here?( kiddin')
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