Speedify’s Pair & Share Cellular Sharing: How it works

Speedify’s Pair & Share is a cellular sharing feature that allows multiple Speedify users on the same local network to wirelessly share and combine LTE, 4G, and 5G cellular connections. Everyone gets a fast, reliable, and portable bonding solution that “fits in your pocket.” Rather than relying on a single hotspot, paired devices both share and receive each other’s cellular data (up to 10 Mbps per connection), creating a boosted “personal hotspot” for everyone, with built-in failover and full encryption. It’s a proven solution for maintaining internet access on the go, at events, during commutes, or anywhere standard connectivity has issues.

What is this feature for?

This is really useful for users in a number of scenarios:

• You can set your laptop or tablet to wirelessly use your phone's cellular network if the main internet connection goes out.
• Mobile users at a sporting event can use one of the iPhone's hotspot to pool their cellular connections to allow live streaming from locations where no one phone can get a good enough connection.
• Travelers on a train can pool their cellular connections from different operators to vastly increase their chance of staying connected while traveling through tunnels, mountains and forests.

How does it work?

Once you opt-in to turn on Pair & Share, Speedify clients will find each other on Wi-Fi and Ethernet networks, like your home or office Wi-Fi. They then "Pair" and offer to share cellular connections among the devices, it's up to you if you want to accept the connection. Speedify can then use the shared cellular connections just like they were built into the computer.

Speedify can use up to 10 Mbps from shared cellular connections. This is enough to do a video conference call or live stream, but will limit users from accidentally using far more mobile data than expected.

Data shared from Cellular connections counts as tethering data on your mobile data plan.

Note: For Pair & Share to work, Lan can’t be blocking MDNS traffic. In other words, the devices on the network need to be able to communicate with each other.