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Use Speedify to Increase Your Upload and Download Speeds: Combine Wi-Fi, 4G / 5G Cellular, Ethernet, Starlink and Other Satellites
Speedify combines Wi-Fi, 4G / 5G cellular, Ethernet, Starlink, and other satellites for faster internet uploads and downloads
Speedify is the only software app that combines Wi-Fi, 4G / 5G cellular, Ethernet, Starlink and other satellites at once for secure, faster, and more reliable internet uploads and downloads so you stay online without interruptions.
Speedify will automatically detect and start using any available Internet connections on your device while intelligently distributing your online traffic between them for optimal performance. If you need help we have quick start guides available for most common set ups.
Speedify combines multiple personal hotspots for faster internet upload and download speeds
Speedify's Pair & Share feature enables you to connect to multiple hotspots at the same time for faster upload and download speeds and more reliable internet for everyone. Speedify's Pair & Share feature allows you to wirelessly share 4G / 5G cellular connections back and forth between multiple Speedify users on the same local network when live streaming from an event, calling from the commute or sharing from the field.
Speedify is the only app that allows you to share 4G / 5G cellular data between PCs, Macs, iPhones and Androids. Use multiple iPhones and Android phones as hotspots for internet access and get faster upload and download speeds and mobile failover for all paired devices.
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A New Feature is Born
Redundant Mode has been available to all users running the latest version of Speedify for just over a week now, and already folks have been writing to tell us how awesome the new feature is.
But, I wanted to dig a little deeper and see what’s happening under-the-hood. The obvious question is whether or not such a system can really help improve ping times. If pings are essentially measures of the speed of light, then you might expect little difference in performance from sending duplicate packets in parallel.
The Control (without Speedify)
Let’s look at some real ping times from a pair of 4G wireless cards in our office, first without Speedify at all.
Verizon 4G MiFi
Ping statistics for 74.125.29.147:
Packets: Sent = 47, Received = 47, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 56ms, Maximum = 411ms, Average = 120ms
Clear 4G USB modem
Ping statistics for 74.125.29.105:
Packets: Sent = 45, Received = 45, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 68ms, Maximum = 388ms, Average = 125ms
While there is a clear minimum ping time, there isn’t really a limit on the maximum ping time. 4G cards have ping times around 50 ms when everything works well, but sometimes they randomly delay packets by hundreds of milliseconds!
Now, with Speedify in Redundant Mode
To improve on this, I connect to Speedify, select Redundant Mode, and run the pings again. In Redundant Mode, each ping is sent on both connections, and whichever one gets through first is the one delivered. Here’s what I get:
Clear 4G + MiFi 4G through Speedify Redundant Mode:
Ping statistics for 74.125.29.103:
Packets: Sent = 41, Received = 41, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 52ms, Maximum = 106ms, Average = 69ms
The average ping times of 125 ms and 120 ms by themselves, gets cut down to just 69 ms, almost twice as good. That’s a 40% improvement with Speedify in Redundant Mode.
In this case, Speedify’s Redundant Mode delivers because 4G networks suffer from jitter (variable latency). There are other scenarios where Speedify helps, too: packet loss, and of course, networks losing connectivity altogether.
So next time you’re gearing up Battlefield, or maybe trading stocks on the Internet, try taking Speedify for a spin.
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