Venue 11 not able to use iPhone Personal Hotspot

I would try two things:

1) while connected see if you've got an APIPA (169.254.x.x) address, and if so, try renewing your IP address.

2) if that doesn't work, then, while connected, disable your NIC and then re-enable it.

Also, I'm not really familiar with the iPhone's hotspot configuration options, but I'd recommend playing around with various SSID and security configurations to see if you can find a combination that works.

I thought I would try this with a Venue Pro 11 7130 and an Iphone 5s...

It doesn't work for me either, however it is exactly the same on a Surface Pro 2. Both devices are given an IP address, just not getting internet from the Phone.

Using a Lumia 925 as the hotspot works fine on both the tablets, so it looks as if it's something to do with the iPhone.

So eventually the Surface Pro 2 connected to the iPhone and is now working as expected. The Venue Pro 11 still will not connect.

Both tablets are running the same corporate image of Windows 8.1 Enterprise. Both have all the latest drivers installed.

They also both pick up the same network settings and are given IP addresses from the iPhone.

Both work fine with the Lumia 925 (Windows Phone 8) as a hotspot.

I have no idea now why this isn't working. Any ideas Dell?

Try one more thing: from a working computer ping a site like yahoo.com. Write-down the IP address that's returned. Then connect the Venue 11 Pro to the iPod and see if you can ping the same IP address. If you get replies then at least we've narrowed the issue down to DNS.

I have the same problem connecting the 5130 to the 5GHz band of my router.  It connects, but only in the "Limited" no internet capacity.  Seems to be a problem with 8.1, Dell's Wireless drivers, or some combination thereof.

Nope, no pings.  I found a suggestion in another thread that it might be the naming convention the iPhone uses by default, putting a ' charater into the name (ie, jhickman's iphone).  I took the ' out of the name, still the same problem.  I may get a very brief connection to the internet, actually retreive a web page, but then it switches to Limited connection and I can access nothing .

I have a brand new dell xps and it's doing the same thing running 8.1 and taking the ' off the iphone name at least got me a little further because the wireless now ask me for my hotspot pw.  I don't think it's a dns issue.  I can ping the gateway.  Even when I force a change to make the dns setting to google's dns of 8.8.8.8, it still can not ping anything.  I even tried ping google.com directly with their ip of 74.125.228.70 and I get nothing but destination unreachable.  This is  serious pain because all my Win7 works just fine with the 5s hotspot.

Any solutions out there on this?  I have a new Dell Venue 11 Pro (7130) and it is exhibiting this exact issue with three separate iPhone 5s devices...clearly it's an issue between the iPhone and Dell and/or Win 8.1 Pro. It is repeatable.  WiFi works otherwise and have no issues connecting to other WiFi, just can't tether.  My iPhone works fine with my Windows 7 laptop.

I did change the name of my iPhone to remove the superfluous space and the "'s", so it's all one word now.  No change -- still doesn't work.  Connects to the WiFi, but can not connect to any web-site (using DNS-name or IP address) and shortly thereafter changes to "Limited" connection.

Initially doesn't work with iPad either, however, after several minutes of trying it does finally connect and allow me to reach web-sites.  iPad is running IOS 7.0.4 on Verizon.  iPhone 5S is running 7.0.6 on Verizon.

Thank  you very much J.

Your solution solved the problem which I've been suffering for 3 weeks, ever since I got my new Dell Venue 11 Pro (7130). I hope Dell will come out with a proper solution to the problem soon.

J,

Thank you so much for your response.  I have to say, I have spent days looking for potential solutions and trying all of them to no avail, however, this does seem to have solved the problem.  Bizarre, as the wireless adapter works without a hitch on dozens of other WiFi networks -- just no iPhone 5s (and potentially other iPhones, but I only had access to 3 separate iPhone 5s phones). 

Ii had the same problem with my new xps and iphone 4. i made a new power plan that i called 'iphone' with the settings that you described and it works great! Thank you!

Thanks J this worked for me as a temporary fix.  I hope Dell create a driver fix to supply the correct amount of power for wireless N.  I think its something along those lines.