Combine a Tethered iPhone and a Tethered Android Smartphone on Your Windows PC with Speedify
Want faster upload and download speeds and more reliable internet on your Windows PC when there is no Wi-Fi or Ethernet? Tether two phones (an iPhone and an Android) and run both at the same time.
Speedify is an app that combines two or more internet connections at once, such as a tethered iPhone and a tethered Android phone, so you get faster uploads and downloads and stay online if one connection drops out. A 4G/5G dongle and a tethered Android work together the same way.
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How to Tether Two Phones to a Windows PC and Combine Them
First, connect (tether) both smartphones to your PC. The steps below use the simplest setup: your PC joins the iPhone’s Personal Hotspot wirelessly, and your Android phone connects to the PC with a cable. You can also tether your iPhone to your PC through USB or Bluetooth, and your Android phone through Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.
Step 1: Make sure your PC has a Wi-Fi card and that Wi-Fi is turned on.
Go to Network Connections (press Windows key + X, then select Network Connections) and click Wi-Fi on the left. If your computer doesn’t have an internal Wi-Fi card, plug an external Wi-Fi USB adapter into a USB port of your PC. Windows installs the drivers automatically, or you may need to install them from the documentation that comes with the adapter. You may need to restart your PC before you can use the adapter.
Step 2: Create a Wi-Fi hotspot on your iPhone (Wi-Fi tethering).
To do this, go to Settings on your iPhone’s home screen and activate the Personal Hotspot option.
Step 3: Configure the Wi-Fi hotspot on your iPhone.
When you go into the Personal Hotspot menu, you can also customize the Wi-Fi hotspot name (SSID) and password used by other devices to connect.
Step 4: Connect your PC to the Wi-Fi network.
Click on the computer or Wi-Fi symbol in the lower right corner of the taskbar (systray). Turn on Wi-Fi by clicking on the tile in the lower side of the pop-up menu and select the Wi-Fi hotspot you set up on your iPhone. Enter your password and you’re good to go.
Step 5: Turn on 4G/5G cellular on your Android smartphone.
Swipe down from the top of the screen and tap Mobile data, or go to the Settings screen and turn the cellular data switch on.
Step 6: Connect (or “tether”) your Android smartphone to your PC using a USB cable.
Go to the Network Settings area on your Android smartphone and find the Tethering section. Tap it and turn on USB tethering.
Step 7: Make sure your PC is connected to your tethered Android smartphone.
On your computer, the tethered phone appears as a wired connection with a computer icon in the lower right corner of the taskbar (systray). Click that icon and you should see a connected wired connection named “Network X”. That is your tethered Android phone.
Step 8: Start Speedify on your PC and combine the tethered Android smartphone with the tethered iPhone on your PC. When you launch Speedify, the software automatically detects the two connections. You will see them each contained in a Connection Row on the Dashboard.
Speedify now combines both phones’ 4G/5G cellular connections for faster downloads and uploads, failover if one phone loses signal, and encrypted traffic. Browse, stream and use your apps as you normally would.
Use Speedify for Windows to combine two tethered phones on a Windows PC.
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