Alessia Santeramo started playing chess at eight and won the Italian under-ten championship at nine. She began streaming chess on Twitch in Italian in June 2019, moved to a fixed English-language schedule three times a week within six months, and now broadcasts most days for a couple of hours at a time.

Chess is a talking, thinking, hours-long format. A broadcast that freezes mid-game costs an audience that took months to build, and the internet connection decides whether that happens. Alessia moved from Wi-Fi to wired Ethernet first, then looked for a way to use both connections at once.

Alessia now runs Speedify with a Speedify Dedicated Server. The stream saves show up in her reports rather than in her broadcasts, which is the point.

Her next step is adding a cellular connection alongside the wired and Wi-Fi lines, so a router failure cannot end a broadcast. Her advice to other streamers is to give Speedify at least two internet connections to work with.

"I was completely new, I didn't know what Speedify was. I did some research on how it works and actually it's a VPN. Most VPNs give you privacy and security, but they are known also that they make your internet a bit slower, because you got to connect to another server. Speedify is really the exception, because you can just put inside all the different connections that you have and you feel the difference: you just don't lose the connection, you don't experience problems."

— Alessia Santeramo, chess champion and Twitch streamer