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Hotspot
Your Connect EZ device offers the ability to create a publicly available hotspot, which allows you to
provide internet access to users while restricting their ability to access other functionality on the
Connect EZ device, as well as applying bandwidth limits, authenticating users, and other features. The
Connect EZ device's implementation of hotspot uses a "captive portal" page—a web page that is
displayed to users when they first connect to the hotspot and requires users to perform some specific
action before they are granted access to the internet, such as accepting terms of use, logging in with a
shared password or a username/password combination, or using a payment service to purchase web
access via your hotspot.
Authentication of hotspot users can be performed by the device itself, by an external RADIUS server or
other remote server, or by HotspotSystem (a cloud-based hotspot management and billing service).
The device provides sample html pages to be used for authentication, and you can modify these
pages, add your own pages, or host HTML login pages on a remote web server.
Note Sample HTML pages provided by your Connect EZ device are located in the /etc/config/hotspot
directory on your device's filesystem. The files are created when you enable a hotspot and its
associated access point or bridge for the first time, and cannot be accessed prior to that.
This chapter contains the following topics:
Hotspot authentication modes
Hotspot DHCP server
Hotspot security
Hotspot configuration
Show hotspot status and statistics
Customize the hotspot login page
Hotspot RADIUS attributes
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