I’ve been playing around with the hotspot function on an rb750 and I can’t seem to find what I’m looking for which is, I would like to have every user who logs on and tries to load a page and is faced with the splash page to input a master username and password. They put in the same user name and password as everyone else and are then allowed in (basically one username and password for all). I want every new person to be stopped to put in a master username and password.
I really don’t want multiple separate user accounts and I will tell you in a minute about what happened when I tried to load more than one user. All I want is one user account to authenticate multiple users. How can this be done? Can it be done? Back to what I was saying before with the creation of multiple users, I created 3 user accounts and then once one user logs in no one else receives the authentication splash page. I’m using a wrt54gl as an AP and have the hotspot setup for ether2-local-master. I suppose once one person logs in no new person who goes to load a page there after receives the splash page. I’m assuming they are already logged in under the first person’s session. Where am I going wrong on that one? Is there another authentication method? I was using http chap and then I tried the mac and left the mac auth password blank and then tried to login after that and could not log in with any user account, not exactly sure what happened there. I would so appreciate some assistance this has been bugging me for a while.
I have a similar problem where my clients buy one voucher and use it on 2 or more systems, this is what they do: they change the mac address of other systems to the access system mac address. and all will have the same ip address. Is there any way to block this?
I think what the users are doing is using a soho-type router with a masquerade. One user connects, and all other users on the soho router can surf the net.
I don’t block it. My rates and connections are based on some users doing that. If they are that good at it, then they can let 10 users share the 1M bandwidth I allow per connection. Granted, the 1M is pretty much non-stop, unlike a normal “one user” connection that is only downloading about a quarter of the connection time.
AND, sometimes this is the only way some of my customer’s children can use their online game systems. The customer logs in with his/her computer, then the other game sytems on that router can use the connection. Some game systems don’t have a browser capable of logging in to the hotspot.
they pay for a connection and later they do what they want.. you sell 1Mb, then it’s for them.. you could limit the number of connections, make a good queue to limit them and such things, or limit the total amount of GB.