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AP-2500 Authentication Methods
• You can enter a single World Wide Web address (such as www.yahoo.com) or you can enter Domain Names
(such as *.yahoo.com). Entering the Domain Name provides users will full access to the specified Domain's
Web sites. For example, if you enter www.yahoo.com in the DNS Passthrough Table, customers will not be
able to access sites such as http://finance.yahoo.com as part of the walled garden.
26. If you plan to limit subscriber bandwidth or offer multiple access plans based on bandwidth speeds, click the
Bandwidth Mgmt tab to notify the AP of its bandwidth settings.
• These parameters correspond to the AP's connection to the Ethernet and the Internet. Based on these
settings, the AP determines the speed of its Internet connection. The AP uses this information when making
bandwidth allocations to subscribers.
• Do not set uplink or downlink speed to 0; this will disable access to the unit over the Ethernet.
• The upper limit for uplink or downlink speed is 100,000 Kbps (100 Mbps). This is the maximum speed at which
the AP can connect to the Ethernet network. In reality, the uplink and downlink speeds will depend upon the
speed of your hotspot's Internet connection (for example, T1 or DSL) and the speed of the wireless cards
installed in the AP (up to 54 Mbps if using 802.11a).
• By default, Bandwidth Management is enabled and uplink and downlink speeds are set to 1500 Kbps.
27. If you want to redirect outgoing e-mail traffic to your Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server, click the SMTP
tab and configure the SMTP Redirection settings. See
• Most SMTP servers only transmit e-mail messages that originate from local traffic to prevent illegal use of a
mail server by spammers, hackers, and other unauthorized individuals. Therefore, most of your subscribers
will be unable to send email messages unless you enable SMTP Redirection.
• When SMTP Redirection is enabled, all outgoing mail traffic is redirected to the SMTP server you specify in
the SMTP Server IP field (this field is based on IP address and not DNS name). This will allow subscribers to
send emails without changing any of the server settings in their email program. Typically, this will be your local
mail server (if you have one) or your ISP's mail server.
• If you want all outgoing mail traffic redirected to the specified server, enable both the Misconfigured and
Properly Configured options. Misconfigured refers to subscribers whose e-mail settings are incompatible
with the AP-2500's Internet settings (in other words, these email settings may work on the subscriber's home
or office network but they won't work in the hotspot); Properly Configured refers to subscribers whose email
settings should work on the hotspot network so you do not necessarily need to redirect these messages to
your own server. If you want properly configured subscribers to send mail without being redirected, enable
only the Misconfigured option. In general, Proxim recommends that you enable both options. Also, you
should never enable Properly Configured and disable Misconfigured (this combination defeats the purpose
of SMTP Redirection).
28. If you want to redirect the user to a specified URL following successful authentication, click HPR and configure the
Home Page Redirection options. See
• If you are using a Portal Page, review
29. If you want a customized banner applet to appear on subscriber's browser screens, click ICC and configure the
Information and Control Console options. See
customization instructions.
• The ICC is a pop-up window that is pushed to your customer's Web browsers. It displays information about the
user's connection (such as access time remaining) and allows your customer to dynamically change
subscription plans. You can also customize the ICC's banners and buttons to promote partner Web sites.
30. If you want to block subscribers from accessing certain Web sites, click URLFilter and configure the URL Filtering
options. See URL Filtering
31. Click the Subscriber button.
32. Click the Billing tab and configure the Internal Billing Options. See
• You can design up to six billing plans; the Internal Billing Options apply to all six plans. For example, if you
configure Units of Access to Hour, all six plans must be offered on a per-hour basis.
33. Click the Plan tabs to define the billing plans that will be available to your customers. You can configure up to six
plans based on price of service, bandwidth allowed, access time, and IP address type (private or public). See
Billing Options for Subscribers
34. Click the Mirroring tab if you want to have copies of credit card transactions sent to external servers. See
Card Mirroring for details.
35. Click the Messages tab to customize the messages and screens that are presented to the customer including the
Login page (Login Msgs), general subscriber messages (Sub Msgs), and error messages (Error Msgs). See
Subscriber Messages
Home Page Redirection (HPR)
Portal Page
Information and Control Console (ICC)
for details.
and DHCP Server Configuration Options
for details.
SMTP Redirection.
for details.
before configuring the Home Page Redirection options.
Billing Options for Subscribers
for more information.
for details, caveats, and
for details.
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