Spectrum Hot Spot

Who told you that you could? What kind of phone? Using Spectrum Mobile? Dumb question, but do you have service where you are?

The phone is a iPhone SE I have seen my phone listed on my laptop in the past & have used the Personal Hotspot, for some reason that has quit working.

Is the hot spot turned on in the phone?

Yes

Have you entered the password to connect to your hotspot?

But you do have Spectrum mobile service available?

Latner wrote:
Have you entered the password to connect to your hotspot?

Can't enter password until the laptop list the phone for me to click on to.

fj12ryder wrote:
But you do have Spectrum mobile service available?

I have all bars on the phone showing it's working.

haste maker wrote:
The phone is a iPhone

So that's the problem
Have the hot spot app open when your laptop Searches for wi-fi. If you do as I do with my 'droid and turn on wi-fi then close the app. the laptop can not find it.

page 2: On some hotspot apps you also need to make it "Discoverable" (a drop down menu option in many cases) or the laptop can not..well. Discover it.

There may be more issues depending on the laptop. For example Raspberry Pi based computers do not like an SSID of Maker's I Phone b(But MakerPhone works fine. Or so I'm Told

Reason # I long since lost count why I DO NOT have an I Phone .

"Have the hot spot app open when your laptop Searches for wi-fi."
I just tried this & the laptop found my phone but wouldn't connect...said "Can't connect to this network"