Use Speedify to Join Multiple Phones’ Personal Hotspots at the Same Time to Fix Slow Hotel Wi-Fi
A full hotel puts every guest on one shared line, and a room at the far end of the corridor gets whatever is left of it. That is why hotel Wi-Fi can show a strong signal and still fail to load a video call.
Speedify is an app that combines your device’s Wi-Fi and 4G/5G cellular into one steadier connection, and with Speedify’s cellular sharing feature it can also pool the cellular data of other phones in the room. Speedify does not make the hotel 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.
Speedify combines multiple phone hotspots around you when the venue Wi-Fi cannot cope
Keep reading to see why hotel Wi-Fi slows down, three steps to make it usable, and how joining several phones’ hotspots together works.
Why Hotel Wi-Fi Is So Bad: Full Hotels and Far Rooms
When you’re staying at hotels you need Internet connectivity that you can rely on. Watching videos, doing video calls or just browsing the Internet can sometimes be a hassle. The same goes for slow airport Wi-Fi on the way there. Here are a few reasons why hotel Wi-Fi is slow and unreliable:
- Crowded hotel Wi-Fi: when the hotel is fully booked, hundreds of guests share the same Wi-Fi, and each of them takes a share of limited bandwidth.
- Distance from the access point: if your room is the furthest from the nearest Wi-Fi access point, the signal has to pass through several walls and arrives weak.
Speedify gets around this by combining multiple internet connections: if one of them slows down or drops, Speedify moves traffic to the others. Heading off by train? The same fix works on slow Wi-Fi on trains.
3 Steps to Fix Slow and Unreliable Hotel Wi-Fi
The easiest way is Speedify’s cellular sharing feature (labelled Pair & Share in the app). Cellular sharing lets you combine multiple personal hotspots together, so everyone in the group gets more upload and download bandwidth.
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 in your hotel room:
- Install Speedify on every device and connect them all to the same Wi-Fi network, such as the hotel Wi-Fi. If the hotel 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 hotel 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 Hotel Wi-Fi
With more than one phone, ideally on different carriers, Speedify combines the hotel Wi-Fi and each phone’s 4G/5G cellular, so a crowded hotel network affects you less. Combining uses each phone’s cellular data, so keep an eye on the plans.
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