Use Speedify to Join Multiple Phones’ Personal Hotspots at the Same Time to Increase Bandwidth for Airport Wi-Fi Internet
Airport Wi-Fi is shared by everyone in the terminal, so a connection showing full bars can still be too slow to load a boarding pass. Cellular is often no better, because the same crowd is on the same towers.
Speedify is an app that combines your laptop or phone’s Wi-Fi and 4G/5G cellular into one connection, and with Speedify’s cellular sharing feature it can pair with the phones travelling with you and pool their cellular data too. Speedify does not make the airport Wi-Fi faster by itself: the gain needs two or more internet connections at once, and on one connection Speedify works as an encrypted VPN and can be a little slower. It helps the same way when hotel Wi-Fi is too slow.
Speedify combines multiple phone hotspots around you when the venue Wi-Fi cannot cope
Read below why airport Wi-Fi is so unreliable, three steps to get a faster and safer connection, and how pooling several phones together works.
Why Airport Wi-Fi Is So Bad: Thousands of People on One Network
When you’re hanging out in an airport during a layover or just because you’re there early, you need Internet connectivity that you can rely on. The most obvious reason why airport Wi-Fi Internet is slow and unreliable is that it’s usually very crowded. There are thousands of people using the same airport Wi-Fi hotspot. So each of those people eats up a certain amount of bandwidth, which is limited.
Speedify gets around a crowded network by combining several internet connections: if one of them slows down or drops, Speedify moves traffic to the others, so the connection stays usable. Speedify works the same way on slow train Wi-Fi.
3 Steps to Get Faster, More Reliable and Secure Airport Internet
The easiest way is Speedify’s cellular sharing feature (labelled Pair & Share in the app). Cellular sharing lets phones running Speedify share their 4G/5G cellular with each other and with a laptop, which increases upload and download speeds for everyone in the group.
Speedify’s cellular sharing feature works like a new kind of personal hotspot. Instead of one device sharing its internet, every paired device can share and receive connections at the same time.
To set up cellular sharing at the airport:
- Install Speedify on every device and connect them all to the same Wi-Fi network. If the airport Wi-Fi stops devices from finding each other, turn on Personal Hotspot on one phone and connect the other devices to it.
- On each device, open Settings > Pair & Share and turn on Sharing, Receiving or both. Tap “Start by Pairing a Device”, pick the other device under Discovered Devices, and accept on the other device.
- Speedify now combines the airport Wi-Fi with the paired phones’ 4G/5G cellular. Shared data counts as hotspot data on each phone’s plan, so check that the plans allow tethering.
You decide which devices can share or receive, can change the speed limit for each device (10 Mbps by default), and can unpair a device at any time.
For more details, see Speedify’s knowledge base article series on Pair & Share.
Speedify’s Cellular Sharing Helps with Slow, Unreliable Airport Wi-Fi
With more than one phone, ideally on different carriers, Speedify combines the airport Wi-Fi and each phone’s 4G/5G cellular, so one slow network or one busy tower affects you less. In a packed terminal every carrier can be busy too, so expect a better connection, not a perfect one.
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