Captive Portal
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What Is a Captive Portal and Why Does It Matter?
If you offer WiFi to customers, guests, or tenants, you have probably asked yourself a few practical questions. How do I decide who gets online? How do I...
How to Pay for WiFi with Mobile Money
If you run a small hotspot or manage a venue where guests come and go, you know the usual routine. A guest asks for the network, you collect cash or hand...
How MikroTik RouterOS Handles Hotspot Authentication
When a guest joins your Wi-Fi and a login page appears, MikroTik RouterOS hotspot authentication is the part that decides whether that guest gets online. It...
How to Manage Customers on a Public WiFi Network
Free WiFi is a simple way to make customers feel welcome. But free does not mean uncontrolled. If you want to manage customers on a public WiFi network, you...
How to Manage WiFi Customers Across Multiple Hotspot Sites
Running customer WiFi in a single cafe is manageable. You know the layout, you know the staff, and you can walk over to the counter when a guest cannot get...
How to Create a Reliable Captive Portal for Paid WiFi
A captive portal is the page guests see when they join your network and before they can use the internet. On a paid network, that page does a lot of work....
Paid WiFi for Cafes and Restaurants: How to Sell WiFi Access Simply
You already pay for the internet. Your guests already use it. The only question is whether that connection earns anything for you or just sits in the...
How Captive Portals Work with Paid WiFi
If you run a cafe, a salon, a guesthouse, or any venue where people sit and stay online, you have probably wondered how paid WiFi actually works behind the...
How to Configure a MikroTik Captive Portal for Paid WiFi
A captive portal is the gatekeeper of your paid WiFi. When a customer joins your network and opens a browser, the portal catches that request and sends them...
How to Automate Hotspot Billing and Customer Access
If you run a WiFi hotspot, you probably know the routine. A customer walks up, asks how to get online, and someone on your team writes down a name, takes...