Attending an event and "looking forward" to the event Wi-Fi hotspot? We've all been there! It's really frustrating when your phone or laptop shows that you have full signal strength, but the Internet barely works in the conference area. 

That's why it's important not to rely only on the event Wi-Fi. With Speedify, you can combine multiple connections on your computer or mobile device for a smoother experience. If you need even more speed, like for video calls or live streaming, there’s actually another way to get that. You can connect to multiple hotspots at the same time and use them together with Speedify.

Speedify's Pair & Share feature lets you combine multiple personal hotspots together to increase internet bandwidth and minimize latency for everyone. No need for cables or complicated setup: it all works through the Speedify app. Check below to see how you can connect to multiple hotspots at once and use them together.

Event venues, whether it's a large fair ground or just a conference space, can get anywhere from hundreds to tens of thousands of people on the premises at any moment. So, the main reason for why event Wi-Fi is often slow and unreliable is that it's crowded. Each person uses a certain amount of the available bandwidth, which is limited. So, you get less bandwidth.

And it doesn't get any better with 4G / 5G mobile data as well, in the case of large events. It's the same as on a stadium - thousands of people hogging up the cellular data bandwidth from a small area leads to network congestion.

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.

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 like a supercharged personal hotspot. Instead of just one device sharing its internet, all paired devices can both share and receive connections at the same time. This should be very easy to achieve if you have a second connection (like a hotspot device or another smartphone) or, better yet, if you're attending the event with your colleagues or friends.

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.
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 while attending the conference / event.

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 with the event 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.