What Speedify Is Mostly Used For
A cross-country live stream from a moving vehicle. A doctor consulting from a farmhouse on a DSL line. A camera crew broadcasting from a field with no venue Wi-Fi. None of these have one internet connection good enough on its own.
Speedify is an app for phones, computers and tablets that combines several internet connections – Wi-Fi, wired, cellular data, Starlink – into one connection that keeps working when any single link fails. Read more on how real users put that to work, what they were trying to do, and which combinations of connections they ended up using.
Live Streaming a Cross Country Tour of the USA
In October 2022, team UFD Tech started their coast-to-coast journey, from New York City to Los Angeles. It was part of their fundraiser to benefit the SynGAP Research Fund, which is committed to accelerating science to cure SYNGAP1 and to support families affected by the disease.
The Cannonball for the Cure 2022 crew was live streamed on multiple platforms including YouTube and Twitch. The Tesla vehicle they used was connected to Starlink satellite Internet and also to cellular from AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. All these Internet connections were combined with Speedify to provide a reliable connection for the live stream so they will be online regardless to what happens to any one of their connections.
Making Starlink Internet More Reliable
Joseph Cristina, content creator and Starlink user, has tested hundreds of routers for failover, load balancing and bonding. He only found a Peplink router being up to the game of making Starlink more reliable, but that has an expensive price tag to it. He tested Speedify thoroughly and now he recommends it.
Staying Connected While Chasing Storms
Daniel Shaw, expert storm chaser and news director, found Speedify to be a lifesaver in more than once sense. When chasing storms across the world, data coverage and outages can be big issue. This is where Speedify has helped Daniel, not just with streaming, but with inbound data, and warning coordination, so he could still stay stable and get the necessary warnings out, which can be a literal lifesaver!
“When all hell breaks loose, that first warning to get out, without having to screw around going from connection to connection, that is a lifesaving thing for many people. And Speedify gives me that.” – Daniel Shaw
Find out more in our special Speedify LIVE episode.
Helping Avoid Internet Issues for Telehealth
Michael Reeder is a psychotherapist in Baltimore and unfortunately gets questionable Internet service. He has got his share of fighting to stay online, having to juggle between several ISPs to be able to run his online consultations every day. And there were inherent “bumps in the road” like losing video connection, for example.
“Speedify greatly lowers the number of video freezes and disconnects. It keeps me from having to switch ISPs 1-3 times in the middle of a client session. The video quality is not always perfect, but the reliability of the connection is much improved”, said Michael.
He uses a combination of 3 ISPs: Comcast, T-Mobile and AT&T, doing a mix of those depending on the time of day and what system the client’s on. “Speedify lets me not have to switch between them all the time and just do my job.”
Find out more about Michael’s story.
Reporters Use Speedify for Hassle-Free Live Broadcasts
Nick Garnett is a reporter and videographer for BBC. In the past 30 or so years of being on the job, Nick has seen how livestreaming developed. It’s gone from needing a radio car with a pneumatic mast, to using satellite dishes like his Hughes 9202 and ISDN codecs, to eventually being able to run broadcasts from a single cell phone using apps like Luci Live and Speedify.
He has found the perfect broadcasting device: a Raspberry Pi attached to a small screen, portable in a small custom Peli case, also running Speedify! It has Wi-Fi, an Ethernet port, USB ports for dongles and microphones, while also using Speedify to combine multiple connections in the CLI, so it uses as little resources as possible.
Find out more in this special Speedify LIVE episode.
Always-On Connectivity on a Phone
Not every story is a broadcast or a storm chase. Dakota, a long-time Speedify user on mobile, wrote in about the thing he noticed most: he stopped having to think about it at all. Once Speedify is running on an iOS or Android phone, every app on it uses Wi-Fi and cellular data together, around the clock, without being switched on and off.
A Gaming Blogger on Faster Downloads and Smoother Streams
We asked Kevin McClusky, a well-known gaming blogger, to take Speedify out for a spin:
I like Speedify because not only does it use the latest encryption techniques, but I can also use it to combine my connections. This is especially helpful since I enjoy playing online games, and the extra speed means I can download demos and patches faster. I’d much rather spend my time playing than waiting for a progress bar to fill up. You can also use it to help smooth out streams on services like Twitch.
Speedify also improves latency, which can help reduce your reaction time. It’s easy to set up and combine your various data plans, and the interface lets you choose which connections should take priority. You can also set limits so you don’t go over a predetermined amount of data.
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