Tips and Tricks on Fixing Slow Hotel Internet: Use Speedify to Combine the Hotel Wi-Fi and Cellular Data
To make hotel Wi-Fi faster, try the simple fixes first: move closer to the access point, plug into the room’s Ethernet port if it has one, and ask whether the hotel sells a faster tier. Then add your phone’s 4G/5G cellular as a second internet connection. Hotel internet has to cover every guest at once and is usually sized for browsing rather than a night of work or streaming, so during a busy week you are not the only guest watching it crawl.
Speedify is an app that uses the hotel Wi-Fi and your own 4G/5G cellular at the same time, so you are not depending on the hotel’s share of the line, and it encrypts your traffic on a network every other guest is also using. Speedify cannot make the hotel Wi-Fi itself faster: the speed gain needs two internet connections at once, and on the hotel Wi-Fi alone Speedify works as an encrypted VPN and can be a little slower.
Speedify combines multiple phone hotspots around you when the venue Wi-Fi cannot cope
This guide covers why hotel internet is so consistently bad, what to do about it, and how Speedify covers speed, security and moving between networks.
How to Make Hotel Wi-Fi Faster with Speedify
- Download Speedify on your phone or laptop (Windows, macOS, iOS, Android).
- Open Speedify and create a free account (the free tier includes 5 GB per month), or sign in.
- Connect to the hotel Wi-Fi and sign in on its login page. On a phone, keep cellular data turned on; on a laptop, connect your phone with a USB cable as a second internet connection.
- Connect. Speedify sends traffic over both connections at once and moves it to the working one when the hotel Wi-Fi weakens.
- Work, stream or call as usual.
Why Hotel Wi-Fi Is So Bad: Shared Bandwidth and Cheap Equipment
There are usually two reasons for slow hotel Internet. First, hotels often do not invest in superior hardware and Internet connectivity. Even many expensive hotels are running on the bare minimum. The large number of people all trying to use the Internet at the same time compounds this infrastructure issue.
The second reason is pricing. Some hotels offer a free, slow tier and a paid, faster tier, and when a hotel sells the faster tier, the free one is usually capped.
How to Speed Up Slow Hotel Internet
Speedify speeds up your connection in a hotel by adding your phone’s 4G/5G cellular to the hotel Wi-Fi. You can download the Speedify app for iPhone and Android phones, Windows and macOS laptops, and Linux.
On a laptop, the phone connected with a USB cable is the second internet connection: on a Mac this works with an iPhone, since Android USB tethering does not work on a Mac with Speedify. Combining uses your cellular data, so keep an eye on your plan. If one phone’s data is not enough, you can combine two phone hotspots on slow hotel Wi-Fi.
How Speedify Protects Hotel Traffic and Switches Connections
Besides letting you combine two different internet connections into one, Speedify encrypts your traffic and manages your connections for you.
Speedify checks the quality of each connection all the time. If one connection becomes unstable, Speedify moves the traffic to the other one (failover) to keep you connected, and starts using the first connection again once it recovers.
As a VPN, Speedify encrypts all of the data sent to and from your device, so the hotel network sees only an encrypted connection to a Speedify server, not the sites you visit. That encryption also protects your data from other guests on the same network who try to steal passwords. Encryption on one connection can cost a little speed (see how a VPN affects your speed); the speed gain comes from the second internet connection.
If you spend nights in hotels with slow, unreliable internet, Speedify gives you a second internet connection to lean on and encrypts what you send. Get started with Speedify now: the free account includes 5 GB per month.
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