Mobile Data Offloading: Free Up Bandwidth Effectively Network operators (carriers) and mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) face a critical bandwidth problem. As Wi-Fi Now mentions, carrier-driven Wi-Fi offload has seen little adoption outside a few dozen deployments, but unlimited data plans have put it back on carrier roadmaps. Mobile devices now use more data than ever, as app developers bring … Read More
SD-WAN for Business: Speedify Combines Every Internet Connection with No Dedicated Hardware
What is SD-WAN and How Does It Help with Internet Connectivity? SD-WAN promises to make several WAN links behave like one manageable network, and for most businesses the blocker is what it costs to get there: appliances at every site, plus the contract to manage them. Speedify is SD-WAN bonding software: it combines the internet connections a site already has, … Read More
Facebook Live Streaming Internet Checklist: Gear and Speedify for a Steady Upload
Go Live While Using Speedify on Your Streaming Device. Combine Multiple Internet Connections Together – Like Starlink, Wi-Fi, 4G, 5G, and DSL. Facebook Live broadcasts pause, blur, or cut off partway through, and the usual reason is your internet connection’s upload speed (the rate at which video leaves your phone) falling below what the broadcast needs. One Wi-Fi or cellular … Read More
How to Test for Data Throttling and Use Speedify to Get Around ISP or Carrier Slowdowns
How Data Throttling is Changing and Affecting You Your carrier’s fair-use limit lands mid-month and video quality falls off a cliff. Or your home provider slows one service and not the others, and no support agent will confirm it. Both are data throttling: your provider deliberately slows your connection, either after you use a set amount of data or for … Read More
Low Latency Video Streaming: What It Takes and How Speedify Keeps the Upload Steady
What is Low Latency Video Streaming and Who Needs It? Latency is the lag between an action on camera and a viewer seeing it: a few seconds normally, under a second when live chat or esports depend on it. Most of that lag comes from the software encoding your video and the platform, but an unsteady upload adds more, because … Read More
Essential Live Broadcast Equipment and Speedify for Faster Upload Speeds
What Live Broadcast Equipment Do I Need? Cameras, lights, microphones and a switcher get bought first, and then the whole kit is fed through one internet line that cannot push the video out fast enough. Upload speed, not camera quality, is usually what decides whether a live broadcast holds together. Speedify is an app that sends outbound video over Wi-Fi, … Read More