Hotspot advice

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Hello, please advice if hotspot or anything else would do me the followed!
I want to publish a public guest wifi which show a welcome page only, a friend recommend me mikrotik device RB571u-2hnd, my only purpose is to show to whoever connect to the wifi spot an html files in their smarphone/tablets..etc, I do not need no internet or Lan gateway or anything just presenting a welcome html pages!

Any help in this matter or recommendation of any device that would do this is appreciated!

Thanks!

2

This solution should work for you,
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/standalone-hotspot-on-mikrotik-751/72208/1

3

Thanks for your concern, but what I mean is to configure my device and let it to work with no internet and no other devices as its only to represent an Ad!

If I missed something, kindly present more description about that!

Thanks!

4

Yes, HotSpot requires Internet access, otherwise it is not going to work.
There is no 100% working way otherwise. What is the reason to show advertisement, when there is no Internet access?

5

The reason is that we need to only show the required documents for filling an application, just an html document with some images may be and its static.

Internet access is going to be a headache for such!

6

Any reply!
Is it that hard!

7

I dont’ know if it works for you or not,

In the past I also implemented this for an small network who only needed the advertised page of there network, (rest of internet works after dialing using pppoe)
in DHCP server, I added default gateway and dns pointing to that simple rb750, where I redirected port 80 traffic to proxy 8080, and created a deny rule that deny all requests and redirect it to local web server which shows the advertisement. In mikrotik RB750 there was no internet access, but it was using another RB DNS as its primary DNS for resolving queries. I don’t remember if access to dns was required or not. give it a try.