Hotspot - Digi IX20W-PR User Manual

Hotspot

Hotspot is available for Wi-Fi-enabled models (IX20W), and 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 IX20 device, as well as applying bandwidth limits, authenticating
users, and other features. The IX20 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 IX20 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:
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