Reliable Internet for Live Event Production, Without a Rack of Hardware
Camera feeds, cloud file transfers and remote commentary all push data out of one venue at the same time, and house Wi-Fi is shared with thousands of attendees while a single cellular line depends on whichever tower the building happens to sit under. Outside broadcast vans parked at the venue hit the same limits, covered in reliable internet for outside broadcast vehicles.
Speedify is an app that spreads that outbound traffic across Wi-Fi, 4G/5G cellular, Ethernet, Starlink and other internet connections together, with no appliance to buy, rack or ship. 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 bonds every link you have into one broadcast feed, with no hardware
Inside, you will find why venue networks buckle under a production, an on-site setup and pre-show checklist, and how crews standardize on Speedify for Teams. Speedify’s team can plan a rollout across your productions.
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How Speedify combines internet connections on any hardware
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Speedify offers three commercial paths. They work together, and most enterprise customers use two or more.
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Speedify Teams
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Integrate Speedify into your iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux or QNX product. Full developer documentation, sample code and supported integration paths. Your team owns the build, and the Speedify SDK handles combining the internet connections.
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Why Venue Wi-Fi and a Single Cellular Line Fail at Events
A live feed is an upload that never pauses, and uploads are where a weak connection cracks first. At an event, each of these is enough on its own:
- Shared venue Wi-Fi. One access point split across a crowd leaves little upstream for a production feed.
- Tower congestion. At a busy event the nearest cell tower runs out of capacity even when the bars look full, and the upload is first to starve.
- One path, one failure. A single connection carrying the whole show is also its single point of failure.
How Speedify Combines Multiple Carriers Into One Stable Uplink
Speedify combines every connection the crew brings, then sends the feed across whichever links have room.
- Combine several carriers at once. Two or three modems on different networks become one uplink, so a weak spot on one carrier is covered by the others.
- Redundant delivery for the moments that cannot drop. Speedify’s Streaming Mode protects a live feed automatically, switching between combining connections for speed and duplicating packets for reliability based on what the network is doing.
- Cellular sharing for more signal. Speedify’s cellular sharing feature pools 4G/5G cellular from nearby phones on the same local network, so a second crew member on another carrier adds another tower to the uplink.
- Failover in milliseconds. If a connection drops mid-show, Speedify keeps the feed alive on the rest; Speedify says failover happens in milliseconds.
Add venue Ethernet and Wi-Fi where they exist and Speedify treats them all as one uplink. For a mobile rig, see how a crew gets reliable internet at a trade show booth.
On-Site Setup and a Pre-Show Checklist
- Download Speedify on the production laptop or encoder machine.
- Connect every path available: venue Ethernet, venue Wi-Fi, and two or more cellular modems on different carriers.
- Leave Streaming Mode on (the default) so Speedify protects the live feed automatically.
- Run a rehearsal push at show bitrate and watch the connection stats before doors open.
One honest note: combining only helps when there is capacity to combine. If every carrier at the venue is saturated to nothing, no software invents bandwidth. The reliability comes from carrying the feed over several independent paths, which mixing carriers and venue links almost always provides.
Scale Across Crews with Speedify for Teams
For a production company running multiple shows, Speedify for Teams brings every crew under one account. Speedify’s dedicated and self-hosted Speed Servers give a fixed reassembly point and static IPs to allow-list on a streaming platform, and Speedify’s enterprise connection combining runs the same setup across crews and vehicles. Teams weighing a hardware cellular bonding rig can compare the software approach in Speedify vs. LiveU.
Speedify Is Used on Millions of Devices Worldwide
Speedify has made internet connections faster and more reliable for businesses and individuals since 2014.
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Speedify downloads worldwide75K+
5-star reviews for Speedify on iOS and Android82
Speedify server points of presence in 50+ cities on 6 continents500TB+
Of internet traffic carried by Speedify every weekSpeedify Partners
Speedify works with these companies to bring faster, more reliable internet and networking technology to their customers and employees.
Live Event Production Internet: FAQ
What is the most reliable internet for live event production?
The most reliable setup combines several independent connections so no single one can take down the show. Speedify combines venue Wi-Fi, wired Ethernet and multiple cellular carriers into one uplink, and Speedify says failover happens in milliseconds.
Can Speedify replace a hardware cellular bonding encoder?
For many productions, yes. Speedify runs as software on the encoder or laptop and combines the connections directly. Where a dedicated encoder is required, Speedify still combines the internet connections feeding it.
How many internet connections can Speedify combine at an event?
Speedify combines every connection a device can reach at once, across Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and multiple cellular carriers. More independent paths means more resilience.
Does combining connections fix a fully saturated venue network?
No app creates bandwidth that is not there. Speedify helps whenever at least one additional path has capacity, which mixing carriers almost always provides.
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Speedify Embedded Solutions and Integrations
Add Speedify to your own app or hardware with the Speedify SDK. Your product then combines internet connections, fails over automatically when one drops, and encrypts the traffic, using the same technology as the Speedify app.