At a festival, tens of thousands of people crush the same Wi-Fi and cell towers, so checking the schedule, messaging friends, or live streaming all stall. Speedify combines your phone's Wi-Fi and 4G/5G cellular into one steadier connection.

When that isn't enough, Speedify's Pair & Share feature pairs your phone with friends' phones nearby and pools everyone's cellular both ways for more speed. No cables, no new data plans, no setup beyond a tap in the Speedify app.

Being in the same place with hundreds or thousands of other people will affect the performance of the Internet available at the location, whether it's Wi-Fi provided by the organizers or 4G / 5G cellular data.

This happens because more people will use more bandwidth, so there's less of that available for each user. Often you'll notice that you will not be even able to join the Wi-Fi hotspot. 

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.

This is the full bars but no internet problem. Your phone shows strong signal because the tower is close, but the capacity is gone because the whole crowd is sharing it. Pairing phones on different carriers routes around whichever tower is saturated. Read more on why full bars can still mean no internet.

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,:

1. 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, like the festival's hotspot.
2. Make sure you have Pair & Share enabled on all devices. Start by pairing a device to share and receive.
3. You are now taking advantage of both your and others’ Internet connectivity for faster, more reliable and secure Internet for festivals.

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.

Forget about Internet issues when attending festivals. 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.