Hotspot

Your TX64 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 TX64 device, as well as applying bandwidth limits, authenticating users, and other features. The TX64 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 TX64 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.

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