Use Speedify to Combine Multiple Phones’ Personal Hotspots at the Same Time
Friday-night youth football puts you high in the stands or a press box with a phone on a tripod, filming four quarters and a stopping clock, a long stretch for a shaky internet connection. Stadium Wi-Fi is usually saturated, and the crowd around you sits on the same cell tower.
Speedify is an app that joins your phone’s Wi-Fi and 4G/5G cellular into one internet connection and keeps sending video over whichever links are healthy. Speedify needs two or more internet connections for this. On a single connection, Speedify works as an encrypted VPN and cannot stop that connection from dropping.
Speedify gets the game online when the field has no internet
Coming up: why football venues starve an upload, how Speedify’s cellular sharing feature borrows a second phone’s 4G/5G cellular connection for more room, and the taps to go live without the picture breaking up.
Reasons Why Live Streaming Youth Football Is Sometimes Difficult
Wishing to live stream kids football games? You need Internet connectivity that you can rely on. The same is true when you stream your kids’ soccer games. Here are a few reasons why you usually don’t get that by only using one connection:
- 4G/5G cellular network congestion: if a lot of parents are live streaming their kids’ games, sending video files to family or making video calls, the limited bandwidth available gets even smaller.
- Crowded Wi-Fi hotspot: for the same reason, a public Wi-Fi hotspot in the area will most likely be crowded by other parents trying to do the same thing as you.
That’s why it’s important to use Speedify to combine multiple internet connections: if one of them becomes sub-par, Speedify moves the traffic to the others, so the connection stays fast, reliable and secure.
Speedify: Essential Tool when Live Streaming Youth Football for Faster, More Reliable and Secure Internet Connectivity
The easiest way to do this is Speedify’s cellular sharing feature (called Pair & Share in the app). Cellular sharing lets you combine the 4G/5G cellular connections of several phones to increase upload and download speeds for everyone.
Speedify’s cellular sharing feature works like a new kind of personal hotspot. Instead of just one device sharing its internet, all paired devices can both share and receive connections at the same time.
Here’s how to use Speedify’s cellular sharing feature:
- Get the Speedify app on all your devices and connect them to the same Wi-Fi network. If there is no Wi-Fi network you can use, turn on Personal Hotspot on one phone and connect the other devices to it (Personal Hotspot is not needed on every phone).
- In Speedify, go to Settings > Pair & Share, turn on Sharing and/or Receiving, tap “Start by Pairing a Device” and pick the other device under Discovered Devices. The other user accepts the pairing.
- You are now taking advantage of both your and others’ Internet connectivity for faster, more reliable and secure Internet while live streaming your kid’s football game.
Traffic between devices is fully encrypted, and you always keep full control over which devices can do what: set permissions, limits, or unpair from other devices at any time.
For more details, see the Speedify knowledge base articles on cellular sharing.
With more than one phone to help, preferably on different carriers, Speedify’s cellular sharing feature joins all available connections, so one congested network does not stop your stream.
Related reading: How much upload speed you need to live stream youth sports
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