Internet for Remote Teams: Speedify Keeps Every Home Office Secure and Online

Secure and Reliable Internet for Distributed Remote Teams

Remote teams scattered across home offices, co-working spaces, and client sites depend on internet connections that were never built for business continuity. A single ISP outage, a flaky home router, or a congested coffee-shop Wi-Fi network can knock a team member out of a call, stall a deployment, or expose sensitive traffic to an untrusted network. Protecting that traffic requires real encryption, not just a login screen, and most remote setups treat security and uptime as two separate problems instead of one.

Speedify solves both at once. Speedify combines every available internet connection (Wi-Fi, 4G/5G cellular, Ethernet, Starlink and other satellite) into a single encrypted tunnel, so a remote employee’s traffic stays protected while Speedify automatically shifts load away from whichever connection is struggling. That approach is built on Speedify’s technology for combining internet connections, which uses up to 95% of the combined capacity of every connection (Speedify’s published figure) instead of leaving a second connection idle until something fails. That is the difference between WAN bonding and plain failover. The failover part needs two or more internet connections; on one connection Speedify works as an encrypted VPN and cannot stop that connection from dropping.

With Speedify, your internet stays on when one connection fails.

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How Speedify combines internet connections on any hardware

A walkthrough of the protocol, the per-packet distribution model, the failover logic and the encryption layer in one detailed explainer, plus the architecture and engineering tradeoffs that make Speedify different from a load balancer or a regular VPN.

Get started with Speedify for your business

Speedify offers three commercial paths. They work together, and most enterprise customers use two or more.

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Speedify Teams

Faster, more reliable internet for everyone in your business, managed from one dashboard.

Speedify on every supported OS for every team member


Centralized dashboard for billing, user provisioning, and usage analytics


CSV import/export and a RESTful management API

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Speedify for Routers

Run Speedify on hardware you already own, or buy a Powered by Speedify router with it preinstalled.

License for supported OpenWrt routers


Powered by Speedify hardware lineup ready to deploy out of the box


Miri, GL.iNet and other partner models


Covers every device on the network, with no per-device install

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Embed Speedify into your product

Add Speedify's ability to combine internet connections to your own product. For OEMs, software vendors and hardware manufacturers that ship connectivity as a feature of their own product line.

A · DIY

Build it yourself with the Speedify SDK.

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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B · CUSTOM ENGINEERING

Have the Speedify team build it for you.

The Speedify engineering team delivers custom integration work, deployment architecture and protocol-level customization, built to your spec and your timeline by the people who built Speedify.
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What distributed teams need: uptime plus security

  • Continuous uptime. Speedify keeps a session alive when one connection degrades, shifting traffic to the remaining paths without dropping the call or file transfer.
  • Encrypted transport by default. Speedify encrypts every packet with DTLS 1.2 and AES-256-GCM or ChaCha20-Poly1305, so traffic crossing hotel Wi-Fi or a shared network stays private.
  • Consistent performance regardless of location. Speedify treats a home fiber line, a phone’s hotspot, and a satellite dish the same way, combining whatever is available.
  • Central visibility for IT. The Speedify Teams Dashboard shows users and usage statistics, instead of leaving remote uptime as a mystery.

Why consumer VPNs and single links fall short

A standard consumer VPN routes traffic through one tunnel over one connection. When that connection drops, the VPN drops with it, and the remote worker is offline until the link recovers or someone reboots a router. A single ISP line, however fast, is also a single point of failure. Speedify was built differently. Rather than picking one path and hoping it holds, Speedify combines multiple connections concurrently, so a dropped Wi-Fi signal or a saturated cellular tower does not take down the whole session. For distributed teams that need both continuity and control, Speedify’s enterprise solution for combining connections extends that same resilience across an entire workforce rather than a single laptop.

How Speedify combines internet connections and encrypts every packet

Speedify establishes simultaneous tunnels across every active connection, then splits and reassembles traffic in real time. If a connection weakens or disappears, Speedify fails over in milliseconds, according to Speedify, so a video call or SSH session continues without a visible interruption, and the public IP address stays the same. Every packet moves through that tunnel encrypted; Speedify keeps no record of the sites visited, though it does record connection metadata such as IP address, connection time and data used. For a remote workforce handling client data from unmanaged networks, that combination closes a gap that a single VPN connection or a single broadband line leaves open.

Central provisioning, dedicated servers, and static IPs for distributed teams

Speedify Teams gives administrators one dashboard to manage accounts, billing and usage statistics. Speedify Dedicated Servers, an add-on to any Speedify subscription, give a static IP, useful when backend systems restrict access by IP address rather than username.

Combined with IP whitelisting for remote teams, that static addressing lets IT lock down internal tools to a known, stable set of addresses instead of opening them to the wider internet. Teams with regulatory obligations also benefit from data residency for self-hosted servers, keeping traffic routed through infrastructure in a specific jurisdiction.

Rolling this out across a distributed team follows a short checklist:

  1. Enroll the team under a Speedify Teams account and assign licenses.
  2. Install Speedify on each employee’s laptop and phone, and pair home Wi-Fi with a second internet connection such as the phone’s 4G/5G cellular.
  3. Configure static IPs and whitelisting rules for internal tools.
  4. Review the Speedify Teams Dashboard weekly for usage trends.

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 worldwide

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5-star reviews for Speedify on iOS and Android

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Speedify server points of presence in 50+ cities on 6 continents

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Of internet traffic carried by Speedify every week

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Remote Team Internet: FAQ

Does Speedify replace a company VPN?
No. Speedify encrypts traffic between each device and a Speedify server while combining multiple connections, but it does not connect employees to a company intranet or replace IT’s remote-access tools. Running Speedify and another VPN side by side on the same device is not reliable; the documented workaround is to run Speedify on a router or a second device and run the company VPN on the computer connected to it.

How many connections can Speedify combine at once?
Speedify combines as many active connections as a device has available, commonly Wi-Fi plus 4G/5G cellular, and adds Ethernet or satellite connections where present.

What happens if a remote employee only has one internet connection?
Speedify still encrypts that single connection, but combining and failover require a second connection, so pairing a phone’s hotspot with home Wi-Fi unlocks the full benefit.

Can IT manage licenses and servers centrally?
The Speedify Teams Dashboard covers users, billing and usage statistics, and the Speedify Teams API handles provisioning and settings. Dedicated Servers with static IPs are added through the Speedify Account Management portal.

Speedify Business Solutions

Speedify Teams

Get faster uploads and downloads and a more reliable internet connection for all the people and devices in your business.

Speedify for Routers

Run Speedify on your OpenWrt, GL.iNet or Miri router to combine Wi-Fi, 4G/5G cellular, Ethernet, Starlink and satellite internet connections for every device on your network.

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.