Forget About Buffering and Disconnects While Live Streaming Your Event
A live stream of your event stays online when its upload speed holds steady, with no buffering and no dropped broadcast. Speedify is an app that combines Wi-Fi, 4G/5G cellular, Ethernet, Starlink and satellite internet connections at the same time into one faster, steadier upload, and it keeps the stream running if any single connection drops.
Here is how to live stream your event without those internet problems, whether it is a wedding on Facebook Live, a conference or a concert, and what to do when the venue has no Wi-Fi. For the gear itself, see the best equipment to livestream an event.
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Why Event Live Streams Buffer and Drop
If your event stream has buffered or dropped before, you are not the only one with this problem. In most cases the cause is capacity: the venue Wi-Fi and the cell towers nearby have to serve the whole crowd, and your upload competes with every phone in the room.
Here’s what usually happens, from a more technical perspective:
- There’s not enough bandwidth available for your live stream so either the quality drops (jittery / choppy video) and/or you see disconnects
- Spotty Wi-Fi coverage leads to disconnects.
- The Wi-Fi hotspot has no working internet, but your phone stays connected to it because the phone cannot tell the hotspot is not working. Instead of switching to 4G/5G cellular to keep the stream going, the phone drops the stream.
How to Live Stream Your Event on a Stable Internet Connection
You want your event stream to stay connected and keep a steady video quality from start to finish. Relying on a single internet provider can get you in trouble, so use two or more. The best setup for live streaming an event is to combine 2 or more connections at once from different providers, such as venue Wi-Fi plus 4G/5G cellular from two carriers, with an app designed for streaming like Speedify.
Speedify splits your traffic packet by packet across 2 or more connections at the same time. Speedify is software, not a hardware box, so it runs on a desktop or laptop computer, a smartphone or a tablet.
If one of your connections fails, Speedify automatically reroutes all the traffic through your other available connection(s). This happens in the background without you having to do anything. When the dropped connection is back online, Speedify will pick it up and start using it again.
Live Streaming an Event Without Wi-Fi or a Home Internet Provider
A live stream needs an internet connection the whole time, because the video uploads as it happens; only a recording can be made offline and uploaded later. The connection does not have to come from the venue Wi-Fi or a home internet provider, though. Phones and mobile hotspots on 4G/5G cellular, or a portable Starlink dish, can carry the stream, and Speedify can combine two or more of them, for example two phones on different carriers, so one weak signal does not end the broadcast.
How Speedify Keeps Your Event Live Stream Online
Customers already use Speedify this way; here is an example from a film live stream.
Unlike a load-balancing router, which sends each stream over one connection, Speedify can use multiple connections at the same time for a single stream, so your upload gets the capacity of all of them.
Speedify also spots venue Wi-Fi that stays connected but stops passing traffic, and moves your traffic to 4G/5G cellular until the Wi-Fi recovers, so the stream does not drop the way it does on a phone that clings to a dead hotspot.
Speedify also identifies audio and video streams automatically and gives them priority over other traffic (quality of service, or QoS), so web browsing and software updates can’t interrupt your calls and live streams.
To live stream your event without connection trouble, try Speedify for free: the free tier includes 5 GB per month with a free account. Get it here.
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