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Creating Captive Portals
A captive portal is a great opportunity to build your brand while providing Wi-Fi service to hotel guests, coffee
shop patrons, students, and other users. You can create a customized portal start page using one of two captive
portal modes.
1
Navigate to the
Dashboard
page. Under
WLAN
Information
, click
Control Panel
.
2
In the
Access Point Control Panel
dialog box,
click
Captive Portal Settings
, located on the
lower left.
3
Click the
General
tab and choose a
Captive
Portal Mode
-
Open Access Mode
-- No user name or password
will be required on the portal page. To limit the
amount of time a guest can use the network,
enter the allowed time in
Free Access Quota
.
Click
Save
to store your changes.
Guest Account Mode
-- The portal page will be
displayed with a login box, and a user name and
password will be required. After selecting
Guest
account mode
, click
Save
. Click
Guest Accounts
to create accounts.
4
Click the
Portal Page Customization
tab.
5
To upload an image for the portal page, first click
Choose File.
Select the desired image from your
system and click
Upload
.
6
Customize your portal page with a
Message
and
Terms & Conditions
.
7
Specify where the customer will be redirected
after successful authentication with
Custom
Landing Page
.
8
Click
Preview
to review your design. Click
Publish
to save your portal page and make it
available to guests.
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