Create a Live Stream on Mobile Without Hiccups
Phones make live streaming easy to start and hard to finish: the app is one tap, but the upload runs on whatever single cell signal you happen to be standing in, and that signal changes as you move. Viewers experience the gaps as frozen or blocky video.
Speedify is an app for Android and iPhone that uses your Wi-Fi and 4G/5G cellular at the same time, so a weak bar on one does not stop the broadcast, and Speedify encrypts what you send. Speedify needs both connections turned on for that: on Wi-Fi alone or 4G/5G cellular alone, Speedify works as an encrypted VPN and cannot stop that connection from dropping. Everything here explains what breaks mobile streams and how going live with Speedify running keeps the picture moving.
Speedify keeps your stream online while you move
Most Common Issues with Mobile Live Streaming and Causes
The best smartphone or tablet and the right streaming apps still depend on one thing: a fast and stable internet connection. The quality of the live stream comes down to the quality of that connection.
Almost every streamer runs into unreliable internet at some point, and it’s most annoying when you’re streaming live to your followers. The most common situations where you might run into these connectivity issues when live streaming include:
- Traveling or on the go: on the street, a bus or a train. You may be connected to a bad / spotty WiFi hotspot.
- Crowded areas: the available bandwidth on both WiFi and cellular connections may not be enough to serve everyone at a stadium, a concert or a frat house party.
- Your home: your ISP may be doing maintenance work right when you’re broadcasting live, or throttling your connection.
If the connection is not stable, you may not be able to stream at a high resolution because bandwidth is limited, so your videos may appear jittery or choppy. And if your connection is spotty and disconnects, you lose many of your viewers, at least for that stream.
Your mobile live streaming “kit” needs a way to handle unfriendly internet conditions while streaming live.
Essential Mobile Live Streaming App: Speedify
There’s a simple answer to all of this when you want to live stream from your mobile device: use Wi-Fi and 4G/5G cellular at the same time. Combining internet connections like this is what the Speedify app for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux does.
A mobile hotspot works for live streaming too: connect the streaming phone to a second phone’s Personal Hotspot over Wi-Fi, keep the streaming phone’s own 4G/5G cellular on, and Speedify uses both, ideally on two different carriers.
Speedify gives your internet connection speed, stability and encryption. Speedify allows you to combine Wi-Fi and 4G/5G cellular at once on your Android or iOS device, and it also runs on computers, tablets and various devices that run Linux, including Raspberry Pi. Combining the two connections adds an automatic internet failover mechanism for reliability and gives the stream more upload bandwidth. In Redundant Mode, Speedify sends each packet over every connection and uses the copy that arrives first, so latency (ping) follows whichever connection is faster at that moment.
With Speedify You Get Fast, Stable and Secure Internet Connectivity when Live Streaming
Speedify is a VPN that combines internet connections, and it runs on the device you’re live streaming from. Instead of using a single internet connection at a time, Speedify lets your device use both Wi-Fi and 4G/5G cellular at the same time, for more upload bandwidth and more stable live streams.
Speedify constantly monitors the quality of your internet connections. If the Wi-Fi becomes unreliable, for example, Speedify will automatically reroute data through cellular until Wi-Fi is available again.
Speedify is optimized for streaming: Streaming Mode, on by default, identifies audio and video streams and gives them priority over other traffic (quality of service, or QoS), so web browsing and software updates do not slow down your calls and live streams.
Try Speedify on your next mobile live stream: the free tier includes 5 GB per month with a free account. Get it here.
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