Give Your Starlink Internet a Boost: Join It Together with a Tethered Android Phone on Your PC
Want faster upload and download speeds, and more reliable Starlink internet on your Windows PC? Run your Starlink connection alongside a tethered Android phone at the same time.
Speedify is an app that combines two or more internet connections at once, such as Starlink and a phone’s 4G/5G cellular, so you get faster uploads and downloads and stay online if one connection drops.
This guide shows how to combine Starlink with a tethered Android phone on a Windows PC using Speedify.
Note: Combine internet connections from different sources. Connecting to the same router over both Wi-Fi and Ethernet does not add speed, because both share one internet connection.
Speedify combines Starlink with other internet sources for faster uploads and downloads, and failover
3 Steps to Join Starlink and a Tethered Android Smartphone on Your Windows PC
Step 1: Connect to Your Starlink Wi-Fi Hotspot
First, set up your Starlink with the instructions that came in the box. This includes your Starlink Wi-Fi network name and password.
On your PC, select the network icon at the right end of the taskbar and turn Wi-Fi on if it is off. Select the arrow next to the Wi-Fi button (Manage Wi-Fi connections), choose your Starlink Wi-Fi network, select Connect, and enter its password.
Step 2: Connect Your Android Device to Your PC and Enable USB Tethering
Connect your Android phone to your PC with a USB cable. A notification shows at the top of your phone's screen. Swipe down from the top of the screen, touch and hold Hotspot, and turn on USB tethering.
You can also turn it on in Settings: Connections > Mobile Hotspot and Tethering > USB tethering on a Samsung Galaxy, or Network & internet > Hotspot & tethering > USB tethering on a Google Pixel.
To check that the tethered connection is active, open Settings > Network & internet on your PC. Windows treats a tethered Android phone as a wired connection, so it shows up there as an additional Ethernet connection.
Note: If your Android phone is also connected to Wi-Fi, USB tethering shares that Wi-Fi connection, not its 4G/5G cellular. To share 4G/5G cellular, turn on Mobile data and turn off Wi-Fi on your phone.
Note: Some mobile carriers limit tethering or charge extra for it, so check with your carrier. Some of these steps only work on Android 14 and up. Learn how to check your Android version.
Step 3: Download and Install Speedify
Download and install Speedify. Speedify is an app that combines your Starlink with the other internet connections on your device, so your internet is faster, more reliable, and more secure.
Once running, Speedify finds your internet connections on its own and splits your traffic across them. If Starlink drops, Speedify moves your traffic to the internet connections that still work. Video calls and live streams get priority over background downloads and updates.
To see how each internet connection is doing, or to set a data limit on one, click or tap it in Speedify.
Speedify's cellular sharing adds more 4G/5G cellular: phones and computers running Speedify on the same local network share their 4G/5G cellular with each other.
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