Issues with Personal Hotspot on iPhone 5

I have an iPhone 5 with the latest iOS update 7.0.4.
When I enable the personal hotspot on the iPhone it does not show up in available connections on my PC.
I have searched around the web and have seen many postings about this issue and have tried many of the suggestions provided by frustrated users and experts. None of these has fixed the issue.
One suggestion:
1. Set Airplane mode off
2. Set WiFi to off
3. Set Bluetooth to off
4. go to Cellular -> Personal hotspot and if it was on turn it off for a few seconds then back on.
5. cycle WiFi on the PC.
This worked one time and only very shortly.
Another suggestion was to change the last character of my personal hotspot password then change it right back.
This also worked only once.
Very frustrating. I need this functionality for work and need some help getting this resolved. Also note I am on a business account.

funnylion,
Let's look further into this! Have you tries troubleshooting the PC in effort to resolve this since the hotspot does work with your Mac? You mentioned you weren't able to connect immediately, does the device eventually connect or not at all? Try resetting network settings here http://vz.to/1eFK7ns and try pressing and holding the sleep/wake button at the top of the phone and the home button at the same time for about 10 seconds until the Apple logo appears. Please test and share. Thank you.
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This is a user to user help forum only. You are not addressing Apple here.
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From: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2756
Note: If you leave the Personal Hotspot screen or put iPhone to sleep, iPhone only broadcasts the Wi-Fi network for an additional 90 seconds. If no devices join the Wi-Fi network during that time, iPhone 4 stops broadcasting your Wi-Fi network. You can start broadcasting your Wi-Fi network again by tapping Settings > Personal Hotspot.
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I have the same issues with my iPhone 5 (6.1.4). I do not have an answer for you, and perhaps my "workaround" will lead someone with more knowledge about these things to offer us more information.
When I turn on the Personal Hotspot and it does not show up as visible on my iPad or MacBook, or offers that ambiguous message about being unavle to join the network, I perform a few steps that almost always resolves it. I have to go through these steps twice sometimes. The order of operations seems to affect the outcome (at least it appears to me that it does)
Turn off WiFi on the client device (iPad, MacBook, Windows laptop, KindleFire, etc)
Turn off Personal Hotspot on iPhone
Turn off Bluetooth on iPhone
Turn off WiFi on iPhone
Then turn on Personal Hotspot and allow it to automatically start WiFi and Bluetooth.
Turn on the client WiFi services.
Connection successful!
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I've searched through the database as well as on google but couldn't find this issue anywhere else so I figured I'd post it here
There seems to be an isssue with my personal hotspot on iphone. In the past I could use either USB tethering or Wi-Fi sharing without any problem but recently I've noticed that whenever I turned on hot spot, and have other devices try to connect to it The connection would be established, but it seems like once the data starts transferring, Iphone would automatically shut itself down, or, rebooted itself rather.
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From Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3574
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iOS System Requirements > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3574
Understanding > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4517
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