IOS 5 Personal Hotspot always showing 1 Connection

Whenever I turn on Personal Hotspot on my iPhone 4Gs (Verizon), the blue bar comes up saying "Personal Hotspot: 1 Connection". When I connect my iPad (original iPad Wi-Fi version) to the iPhone Personal Hotspot, this changes to "2 Connections".
I was worried that some other device was connecting to my Personal Hotspot, so I changed the password, but still always see the "1 Connection".
Is this expected behavior? I wouldn't expect any connections by default.
Is there a way to see what is connected to my Personal Hotspot?
Thanks

I had the same worrie,,, but i think its that the one device does connect twice,,, once via the plugged in USB and the other via wireless,,, i pull the usb out and drops back to one device connected.

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