Hotspot where "free trial" is 1mbps/512kbps and authenticated gets >3mbps/1mbps?

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I’m trying to meet a customer’s requirements of giving wifi guests the option of WiFi at slow speeds (e-mail and basic web capable) for free or signing up for streaming capable speeds via a credit card / RADIUS.

I’ve been looking for examples for a few hours and don’t see something similar. If anyone knows of any examples, I would appreciate a pointer.

I am currently wondering if the best method is for the billing system to authenticate an unknown MAC address as a low speed client without having an actual account.

Also, is there a good way to keep the users informed of the signup page so they can upgrade later, if desired?

I do a lot of RADIUS based rate limiting in an ISP setting, but hotspot is new for me.

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I’m trying the non-streaming plan doing an automatic login using a hotspot user and plaintext password in the login link. It seems to work.

<a href="$(link-login-only)?dst=$(link-orig-esc)&username=defaultguest&password=defaultguest">

The code box wants to word-wrap at a hyphen on my screen. I suspect the word-wrap would break the actual login.html

Now I’m trying to determine what combination of options will bring up the login page once every X hours so the user has the option to upgrade service without hunting too hard.

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  • define the trial and authenticated profile under /ip hotspot user profile with it packet mark
  • assign the trial profile to trial-user-profile=default under /ip hotspot profile
  • define the speed for the packet mark at point 1 (both for free and authenticated users on) queue tree
  • add the hotspot mangle on /ip firewall mangle

does it

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