Hotspot and PPTP

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Hi everyone,

I run few hotspots which have been up and running for a while now using RouterOS on a PC, most of them run inside hotels, hostels and block of flats, but a few months ago I started to use outdoor antennas with Mikrotik RouterBoards so my hotspots coverage and usage have grown significantly.
Because I started to have some requests from customers who would like to have a monthly plan I was thinking of using the hotspot for people who just want to buy few hours of use and a WISP kind of authentication and authorization for monthly customers using the same RouterBoards.
For now I’m not planning to install CPE on customers premises I will just use the wireless to make the connections.
I would like to ask you Mikrotik users few questions:
What a WISP normaly uses to authenticate their user to go online?
I believe some people use a kind of vpn on the laptop, but I don’t really know how to set it up.
Could anyone give some help on how to do the configuration on the RB and on the customer’s laptop.
I would really appreciate your help.

Thanks

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Claudio, consider to use WPA or WPA2 with PSK authentication, PSK doesn’t ask for complicated configuration on a client side.

MikroTik router WPA PSK configuration example,
https://www.mikrotik.com/testdocs/ros/2.9/interface/wireless_content.php#4.13.21.7

Communications is not allowed for the client without WPA information.

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Hi and thanks for your help.
If I use wpa or wpa2 with psk can I create one key for each customer or laptop? Or it will have to be one key for eveyone?

Thanks

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Yes, it is possible to assign separate PSK key for every user.
Security-profile + Access-list are used on access-point in this case.