End User Experience - Proxim Orinoco AP-2500 User Manual

AP-2500 Authentication Methods

End User Experience

The following procedure details the experience of the typical customer if you configure the AP-2500 to use internal
authentication:
1. Customer enters the hotspot and turns on his laptop that has a wireless card installed.
• If the customer is renting a card or you are manually entering customers in the
the customer will need to sign up for service at the counter before turning on the laptop.
2. The wireless card associates with the AP. If the card is configured as a DHCP client, the AP automatically assigns
the card a dynamic IP address.
• The AP adds the client to its
3. The customer launches his Web browser. Typically, the Web browser will attempt to access its default home page.
4. The customer is automatically redirected to the AP's internal login page or to a
• The AP redirects the customer when it receives an HTTP request from the customer's browser.
• If the browser's default home page is loaded in the browser's cache, the customer may not be redirected to
the login screen. But the customer will be redirected the first time he tries to access a new Web site.
• The customer must try to access a valid Web site to call up the login screen. Entering an unreachable URL or
invalid Web address will not bring up the login screen.
• Customers who try to access e-mail first will not have a connection. Customers need to login via a Web
browser first.
5. If an existing customer (that is, the customer is already in the AP's
enters his user name and password (if enabled). If authenticating based on MAC address, the customer only clicks
a Login button. If a new subscriber using a credit card:
• The customer clicks the New User button.
• The customer selects one of the available billing plans and the amount of time he wants to purchase.
• The customer confirms his purchase and then enters his credit card information to pay for the access time.
• The AP adds the customer to the
6. The AP authenticates the user based on the User Name/Password or MAC address. The AP updates the client's
State to "Valid" in the Current Subscribers
7. Following successful authentication, the customer is automatically redirected to the URL of your choice (if Home
Page Redirection is enabled) or to the page that the customer originally requested (which started the login
process).
8. If the Information and Control Console is enabled, a window will appear on the subscriber's screen that contains
information about the connection (such as time remaining) and advertising banners.
Current Subscribers Table with State set to "Pending".
Authorized Subscribers
Table.
Authorized Subscribers
Portal Page.
Authorized Subscribers Table), the customer
Table after a successful credit card transaction.
Table,
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