Unbreakable VPN Connection for Travel by Combining Starlink, Wi-Fi, 4G, 5G, and DSL with Speedify
Install a travel VPN before you leave home, not after you land. Some countries make VPN provider websites hard to reach, so downloading one on arrival is a gamble.
Speedify is the app to have installed: an app that combines Wi-Fi, 4G/5G cellular, Ethernet, Starlink and satellite internet connections into one faster, more reliable connection, and encrypts your traffic like a VPN. On a trip, Speedify can run on airport or hotel Wi-Fi and your phone’s 4G/5G cellular at the same time, so uploads and downloads speed up rather than crawl. That gain needs two or more internet connections; on hotel Wi-Fi alone, Speedify works as an encrypted VPN and can be a little slower.
Speedify keeps your home internet reachable from anywhere
What follows covers how to set Speedify up before a trip, how Speedify protects you on networks you do not control, and how a second connection stops one flaky Wi-Fi network from knocking you offline mid-call.
How to Use Speedify When Traveling in Five Steps
- Download Speedify on your phone and laptop before you leave home (Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Linux).
- Open Speedify and create a free account (the free tier includes 5 GB per month; Linux needs a paid plan), or sign in.
- On a phone, tap Allow when your phone asks to add a VPN configuration.
- When you arrive, join the airport or hotel Wi-Fi. If the network has a sign-in page, Speedify shows a notification; open it and sign in without disconnecting Speedify.
- Keep 4G/5G cellular (your travel eSIM or roaming plan) turned on too. Speedify connects to a Speedify server automatically and uses Wi-Fi and cellular at once, so one weak network does not knock you offline.
How to Use a VPN When Traveling: Install It Before You Leave
The steps above cover how to use a VPN when traveling; the timing is the part people get wrong.
Make sure you download the VPN while you are still in your home country. Some destination countries have banned VPN websites, so you might not be able to download and install a VPN after you arrive.
If you want to install the VPN on your phone, you’ll find the app in the Google Play Store or App Store. Here are the pros and cons of a phone VPN. And if you want to install it on your laptop or MacBook, you’ll find the app installation file on the VPN website.
Most VPNs are easy to use, but most also slow down the connection, because they encrypt the traffic and reroute it through one of their own servers over a single internet connection. The extra hop and the encryption cost time.
Speedify is different: it can also speed up your internet, but only when two or more networks are available to use at once, such as hotel Wi-Fi plus your phone’s 4G/5G cellular. That makes a real difference to streaming and video calls when you are on the move.
How Speedify Keeps You Protected on Hotel and Airport Wi-Fi
When you use Speedify, your traffic is encrypted and routed through a Speedify server. Speedify connects to a server automatically, or you can choose a country or city yourself from the 50+ locations on the network (the full list comes with a paid plan). The airport or hotel network and the local internet provider see only an encrypted connection to that server, not the sites you visit, and those sites see the server’s IP address instead of yours. Speedify keeps no record of the sites you visit, though it does record connection metadata such as your IP address, connection time and data used.
When you land, the airport network is often the first one you join, and open hotspots have a bad reputation because anyone on the same network can try to watch the traffic on them.
With Speedify, your traffic is encrypted before it leaves your device, so even on a compromised network, others cannot read what you send.
Speedify doesn’t just keep you secure on public Wi-Fi networks but on all networks you connect to.
How Combining Wi-Fi and 4G/5G Cellular Keeps You Online When Traveling
Speedify combines two or more internet connections at once for a faster, more stable connection. Say you are at the airport and the Wi-Fi is slow: you can combine your phone’s 4G/5G cellular connection with the Wi-Fi to get faster downloads and uploads.
If you travel with a travel eSIM, Speedify can use hotel Wi-Fi and the eSIM’s 4G/5G cellular at the same time on your phone, or on your laptop through a tethered phone. Combining spends eSIM data, so keep an eye on your data plan. A home SIM and a travel eSIM on the same phone cannot be combined with each other.
Combining connections with Speedify needs no extra setup: keep Wi-Fi and 4G/5G cellular both turned on (on a laptop, add Ethernet or a tethered phone), and Speedify uses them together automatically.
That’s it. Speedify keeps your traffic encrypted and your connection up even when the Wi-Fi at your hotel is slow. Speedify does not unblock streaming libraries from other countries: streaming apps show the library for the country you are in.
Don’t let travel keep you away from fast and secure internet. Get Speedify before your next trip; the free tier includes 5 GB per month with a free account.
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