Business Conferencing and Events Online
A conference stream that freezes takes your speakers down with it, and people who signed up to watch do not wait around. Venue and hotel internet is usually the culprit: shared with hundreds of other devices, with almost no upload room left for live video.
Speedify is an app that carries your traffic over two or more internet connections simultaneously (hall Wi-Fi, 4G/5G cellular, Ethernet, Starlink and others), so the stream leans on whichever internet connections are working. On a single connection, Speedify works as an encrypted VPN and cannot stop that connection from dropping.
Speedify keeps the stream up when the venue internet does not
What follows covers the simple one-phone setup, the multi-camera version, what to watch during the event, and how using Speedify keeps the broadcast up.
How to Live Stream a Conference with Speedify
- Download Speedify on the laptop or phone that sends the stream (Windows, macOS, iOS or Android).
- Open Speedify and create a free account (the free tier includes 5 GB per month), or sign in.
- Give Speedify a second internet connection: connect to the venue Wi-Fi or Ethernet and add a phone’s 4G/5G cellular over USB tethering or Personal Hotspot, or a Starlink dish. On a phone, keep Wi-Fi on and turn on cellular data.
- Connect. Speedify uses both internet connections at once and moves the stream to the working one if one drops.
- Open the streaming software or app (OBS Studio, Zoom, YouTube or Facebook Live) and go live as usual.
Basic Events or Live Streaming Setup
In the most simple setup, you only need a smartphone with a strong internet connection.
A tripod keeps the shot steady. Pick the platform your audience already uses: YouTube, Facebook Live, Twitch or a Zoom webinar. For more angles, use a video system with a few cameras, and add microphones and lighting so speakers sound and look clear.
Live Event Internet Options: Venue Wi-Fi, 4G/5G Cellular and Satellite
Ask the venue for a wired Ethernet line reserved for the stream, and ask what upload speed it gives. Shared venue Wi-Fi is the weakest option, because attendees use it at the same moment you need it. 4G/5G cellular from a phone or hotspot is portable but slows down when a crowd of phones uses the same tower. Satellite internet such as Starlink works where there is no cable, needs a clear view of the sky, and uploads more slowly than it downloads.
How much bandwidth the event needs depends on the quality you set in the encoder, so test the upload at the venue at the time of day the event runs. Two of these internet connections from different sources, used together, cover the moments when one of them slows down.
What a Conference Live Stream Needs from the Internet Connection
As mentioned above, the key is strong internet access. Here are some major factors to consider when streaming your conference or events online.
- Connection reliability: no internet disconnections. Losing the stream in the middle of a session loses the audience with it.
- Connection speed: enough upload speed and low latency to prevent poor video or audio quality. Viewers expect high definition and crisp sound.
- Connection security: send your stream through an encrypted connection.
The sections below cover how to live stream your event online without those internet problems.
Improve Your Online Streams with Speedify
Speedify can combine two or more internet connections at once to give you faster, more stable streams. Speedify also encrypts your traffic like a VPN to protect your online streams.
With Speedify and two or more internet connections, you can get better performance on your uploads, downloads, streaming and web browsing. On the reliability side, Speedify comes with automatic failover: if one connection slows down or drops, Speedify moves the data to the other connection(s) in milliseconds until the slow one recovers. All this happens in the background, and you don’t have to do anything.
Speedify also helps by minimizing packet loss: Speedify detects a lost packet and resends it, over another internet connection when there is one, so viewers see fewer stalls and glitches.
Set Speedify up before the doors open, and run a test stream from the venue at the time of day the event runs, when the venue network is at its busiest.
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