why wont my iphone connect to my hp laptop

In learning about all this, and being in a very public space, I noticed that x2 other people had signed-onto my hot-spot WiFi before I became 'wise to the ways here', and was able to input the MAC address and have only this laptop I'm typing-on now, gain access. You want to find: Wireless LAN Wi-Fi Adapter, and see where it says 'physical address', and that's your MAC address that you need to input into your smart-phone, IF you want to limit your hot-spot access to your devices only.

Then type: ipconfig /all (notice the space after the ipconfig) then hit enter, then you'll see the ip addresses of so many of your computer's adapters. Type 'run' without the quotation marks into your Cortana (Windows-10), or search box for older Windows Versio, and hit enter. Again, I had the wrong MAC address, and for those of you who need to know how to find your correct MAC address, go to: BUT, I was onto the imputing of the MAC address from doing previous research on the internet, only I was imputing the wrong MAC address, that of the Wireless LAN Adapter, but not the Wifi wireless one! It was only when reading this thread, and seeing these God-saving post about 'making sure this section is set to all devices', that it showed my correct MAC address. I became confused, thinking it meant 'allow my phone to be a connection', not realizing it meant, 'devices that will connect through the phone'. Even after reading it, I still didn't get-it, b/c on my phone, it doesn't look like something you'd 'touch-to-change', it it looks like a fixed section that is indicated 'allowed devices only' and that didn't mean much to me, since I'm not that well versed in this protocol and have never dealt with hot-spot issues before, other than, the first time I purchased a better plan that was inclusive of using my phone's hot-spot as a connection point, it worked find and like-a-charm, only to NOT WORK some weeks later, and then this huge frustration and head-ache. Then I have spent countless (hours now) and tried so many 'other fixes', internet searches, scratching-my-head, feeling so frustrated that I'm about to 'pop', and then I see this most basic of instruction and advice. I must have inadvertently hit it, and switched it to 'allowed devices only', and therein was/is my problem.Įven after talking with my phone service's Customer Support Team and having them try and walk-me-through-it, this most basic of problem was never discovered. On my Samsung J7, I never realized there was a change possible to 'allow all devices to connect'. Just wanted to heartily thank everyone for this thread, as 'the most simple, staring-you-in-the-face', can sometimes be the most sublime and hard-to-see.

Why wont my iphone connect to my hp laptop