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 data into one steadier connection, and with Speedify’s cellular sharing feature it can also pool the cellular data of other phones in the room.
Keep reading to see why hotel Wi-Fi slows down, three steps to make it usable, and how joining several phones’ hotspots together works.
Should you have a backup 4G, 5G, Starlink, or cable internet connection?
Yes — every internet connection goes down, including Starlink, which drops for ~34 minutes a day on average. A backup connection from a different provider means one outage never takes you fully offline. The most common options are a 4G/5G cellular hotspot, a cable or DSL line, or a second satellite dish.
4G/5G cellular
Works anywhere. Just a SIM or hotspot — no installation needed.
Learn more →Cable / DSL
Best for fixed locations. Different network, so outages rarely overlap.
Learn more →Second Starlink
Adds redundancy and throughput for remote sites or heavy usage.
Learn more →Speedify bonds any two connections into one — automatic failover, more speed, no dropped calls.
Try Speedify free →Reasons for Slow Hotel Wi-Fi
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. Here are a few reasons why hotel Wi-Fi is slow and unreliable:
- Crowded hotel Wi-Fi – if it’s fully booked, there are hundreds, if not thousands of people using the same Wi-Fi hotspot provided by the hotel. So each of those people eats up a certain amount of bandwidth, which is limited.
- Distance from the hotspot – if you are unlucky enough to get the room furthest away from the Wi-Fi hotspot, you’ll experience poor Internet connectivity just because of the multitude of walls the Wi-Fi signal has to pass through.
That’s why it’s important to use Speedify to combine multiple Internet connections – if one of them becomes sub-par, Speedify enables the others to compensate it and provide fast, reliable and secure connectivity.
3 Steps to Fix Slow and Unreliable Hotel Wi-Fi
The easiest way for this is to use Speedify’s Pair & Share functionality. This allows you to combine multiple personal hotspots together to increase internet bandwidth and minimize latency for everyone.
Speedify’s Pair & Share is a new kind of personal hotspot. Instead of just one device sharing its internet, all paired devices can both share and receive connections at the same time.
Here’s what you need to do in order to use Speedify’s Pair & Share functionality,:
- Get the Speedify app on all your devices and connect to the same Wi-Fi network. This can be created by one of your devices or you can use a public Wi-Fi network – even the hotel Wi-Fi.
- Make sure you have Pair & Share enabled on all devices. Start by pairing a device to share and receive.
- You are now taking advantage of both your and others’ Internet connectivity for faster, more reliable and secure Internet while staying at the hotel.
Traffic between devices is fully encrypted, and you always maintain full control over which devices can do what – set permissions, limits, or unpair from other devices at any time.
For more details, check out our knowledge base article series on Pair & Share.
Speedify’s Pair & Share Functionality Helps You Avoid Slow Hotel Wi-Fi
Forget about Internet issues with the hotel Wi-Fi. As long as you have more than one phone to help, preferably from a different carrier, then you should be all good when using Speedify to join all available connections with the Pair & Share functionality.
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