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Articles on Law 5651, guest Wi-Fi and setup.
- KVKK and data protection4 min readThe installer should never see your AP and switch passwordsInstallation is done and the installer has left; who holds the passwords? Installer and owner roles on the box panel, the audit trail, and a handover checklist.Read more
- Setup and technical4 min readOne box per branch, one view from head officeGuest Wi-Fi for multi-site businesses: one box per branch, health and SMS credit on a single central screen. Does a guest verified at branch A need a new code at branch B?Read more
- Hotspot and captive portal4 min readThe hotspot on your phone and the hotspot in your business are not the same thingHotspot" means two different things: your phone's internet sharing and a business's guest Wi-Fi portal. The differences, when each applies, and what the law expects of a business.Read more
- Setup and technical4 min readReady-made plan templates: Standard, Conference, Staff-guest, Long stayFour ready-made guest Wi-Fi plan templates with speed, session length, idle timeout, device count and daily quota values. Which sector uses which, and how to adapt them.Read more
- Box or cloud4 min readThe cloud says "99.9%"; how do you measure continuity on a box?What a cloud portal's 99.9% uptime covers and what it leaves out. Which indicators show continuity on an on-site box. An honest comparison of both.Read more
- Box or cloud4 min readLogin quotas and per-user fees: how to read a SaaS priceHow to read monthly login quotas, per-user fees and SMS bundles in a guest Wi-Fi subscription, and what happens at the cap. A line-by-line guide to any offer.Read more
- Box or cloud4 min readRent or buy? The five-year billA yearly subscription with a "free SMS" bundle, or a perpetual licence with pay-as-you-go SMS? One year's price misleads. Here is how to work out the five-year total.Read more
- Setup and technical4 min readBandwidth and access-point count: two formulasSize guest Wi-Fi for a café or a hotel with two simple formulas. How many Mbps, how many access points, and when the bottleneck is the uplink rather than the AP.Read more
- Hotspot and captive portal4 min readHow much does device remembering cut your SMS bill?7- and 30-day remembered-device windows, returning-guest assumptions and a worked credit calculation, including the MAC randomisation caveat.Read more
- Setup and technical4 min readHow many guests a day is 250 concurrent users?Concurrent users and unique daily visitors are not the same thing. A formula with worked examples for a café, a hotel and an event, and when a second box is needed.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance4 min readWhatsApp and voice codes for Wi-Fi login: do they hold up under Law 5651?SMS is the baseline, matched to operator records. WhatsApp codes are supported as an addition to SMS; voice codes are a concept only. Third-party dependency and why you need legal advice.Read more
- Hotspot and captive portal4 min readWhy phone verification is the durable pathLogin methods that depend on a third-party identity lookup are fragile. Why SMS codes, coupons, e-mail and registered users are durable methods that stay under your control.Read more
- Industry guides4 min readFree basic plus a paid fast tier: tiered Wi-Fi for hotels and marinasBasic internet free, high speed on a paid coupon. The tiered Wi-Fi model for hotels and marinas, whether paid Wi-Fi makes sense in Türkiye, and a general look at the accounting side.Read more
- Industry guides4 min readWhen should the internet stop after check-out?How long after check-out should a hotel guest's internet stay on? Designing coupon validity as stay length plus tolerance, with no PMS integration at all.Read more
- Setup and technical4 min readA shared staff password ties nobody to anythingOne shared passphrase is a problem for both security and records. Why staff belong on 802.1X/RADIUS and guests on the portal, with setup notes.Read more
- Hotspot and captive portal4 min readShared password, open network, WPA3-Enterprise: why none fits guestsThree common Wi-Fi setups fall short for guests: no identity, no record, or impractical onboarding. How a captive portal with an SMS code closes the gap.Read more
- Industry guides4 min readCode verified, menu open: a post-login QR menu for cafésTie your QR menu and guest Wi-Fi into one flow. Keep the menu reachable before login, redirect to it after the code is verified, and size sessions to table turnover.Read more
- Hotspot and captive portal4 min readWhat should the post-login screen show? Survey, announcement, menu, redirect, and the "follow us" lockFour options for the guest Wi-Fi post-login screen: survey, announcement, menu, redirect address. When each works, and why a "follow us to continue" lock does harm.Read more
- Industry guides4 min readPrinting the Wi-Fi coupon on the receipt: from CSV to POS, rules, and the reused codeTo print Wi-Fi coupons on receipts, export the coupon pool as CSV and load it into the POS receipt template. One code per receipt, same-day validity, and what to do when a code is reused.Read more
- Hotspot and captive portal4 min readCoupon rules: single-use or group code, who handed it out, and what goes in the recordThe right decisions for guest Wi-Fi coupons: single-use versus group codes, validity, device count, what the coupon binds to in the record, the hand-out trail, batch generation and printing.Read more
- Setup and technical4 min readRunning the guest network by the clock: the same result without scheduled on/offHotspot-Box has no scheduled on/off. Night hours in a dormitory, office breaks or café closing time are handled with session length, coupon validity and scheduling on the access point side.Read more
- KVKK and data protection4 min readGuest Wi-Fi terms of use template: how it differs from the privacy notice, and a clause outlineTerms of use and the KVKK privacy notice are not the same document. The difference between them, a clause outline for the terms, and where each text belongs on the portal.Read more
- Hotspot and captive portal4 min readHow to write a fair-use policy: a short template and where to show it on the portalA short, readable fair-use policy template for guest Wi-Fi, why each clause is there, where to show it on the portal, and the mistakes to avoid.Read more
- Hotspot and captive portal4 min readWhen the quota runs out, cut off or slow down? Fair-use design for guest Wi-FiCut off a guest who hits the daily quota, or slow them down? The cost of each approach, a practical recipe using the box's speed, session, idle and quota settings, and how to announce it.Read more
- Box or cloud4 min readHotspot software on a PC or an appliance? The invisible billHotspot software on a spare PC looks cheap. Add the OS licence, a PC that never sleeps, disk, backup, UPS and upkeep, and the sum changes. We count the items one by one.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance4 min readDoes blocking VPN, Tor or proxies on guest Wi-Fi protect your records?A guest switching on a VPN does not break your Law 5651 record. The record covers who used which device and IP, and when, not what travelled through the tunnel.Read more
- Hotspot and captive portal4 min readIs Your Router's "Guest Network" Feature Enough?The guest network on home and office routers separates traffic but keeps no identity-bound, signed records. What it gives, what it lacks, and how the box fits alongside it.Read more
- Setup and technical4 min readThe Box Clock, NTP and Timestamp Offset: Why the Time on Your Records MattersA record answers "which device, which IP, when"; a wrong clock breaks the third answer. NTP monitoring, drift levels, and why the timestamp service's time is independent evidence.Read more
- Setup and technical4 min readChoosing a Cabinet and UPS for the BoxWhere to put a fanless 12 V DC box, which cabinet is enough, and how to size a UPS from power draw. What a UPS protects, and why it is a recommendation rather than a condition.Read more
- Setup and technical4 min readFibre Went Down, 4.5G Took Over: The Record Chain HoldsFailover is the modem/router's job; the box keeps collecting records through an outage. Why CGNAT is fine, how the pending timestamp queue works, and what "pending days" in the panel means.Read more
- Setup and technical4 min readGuests, POS, Cameras, Staff: A Four-VLAN Network for a Small BusinessA described diagram for splitting a small business network into four VLANs: what each carries, where the box sits, POS and printer exemptions, and why cameras stay separate.Read more
- Setup and technical4 min readKeep Guests Out of the Company Network: Two Networks, One BoxGuest Wi-Fi should never share a network with the till, printers and file server. Client isolation on the AP, VLAN separation on the box, and a ten-minute three-step self-test.Read more
- Hotspot and captive portal4 min readThe Code Never Arrived": Six Failure Points in SMS Verification and How to Fix ThemThe guest typed their number and no code came. Wrong number, provider rate limit, unapproved sender ID, empty credits, provider outage and foreign numbers: six causes, six fixes.Read more
- Hotspot and captive portal4 min readThe Portal Keeps Reopening as Guests Roam Between APs: Why and How to Fix ItA guest logs in at the lobby, walks to the restaurant and gets the portal again. What a session is tied to, the single-SSID rule, 802.11k/r/v and the trouble with mixed AP brands.Read more
- Hotspot and captive portal4 min readThe Portal Won't Open on iPhone: Why Guests Don't See the Login PageConnected to guest Wi-Fi but no login page appeared. How phones detect a portal, why HTTPS blocks it, what private Wi-Fi addresses do, and the one sentence to tell your guest.Read more
- Setup and technical5 min readThe portal page does not open: 7 causes and a check orderGuests join the Wi-Fi but the login page never appears. VLAN mapping, DNS-over-HTTPS, the AP's own portal, walled garden gaps, HTTPS first page, wrong DHCP and clock issues, with a check order.Read more
- Hotspot and captive portal4 min readWhy we do not collect marketing data on guest Wi-FiPixels, social login and age or gender inference look attractive on guest Wi-Fi. Each one puts a burden on the business. What the box collects instead, and an honest trade-off.Read more
- KVKK and data protection4 min readAn access record is not a marketing opt-inThe phone number a guest enters for Wi-Fi is collected for a record required by law. It cannot become a campaign list. Purpose limitation, plainly, and what the portal consent covers.Read more
- KVKK and data protection4 min readWhere does the KVKK technical measures list live in the box?Encryption, access control, logging, backup, network segmentation and key management. Where each KVKK technical measure heading maps to a concrete feature of the guest Wi-Fi appliance.Read more
- KVKK and data protection4 min readThe KVKK document set for guest Wi-Fi: five documents and what the box suppliesFive documents a guest Wi-Fi business needs in its KVKK file: VERBIS registration, inventory row, retention policy, access matrix, notice and consent text. What the box supplies for each.Read more
- KVKK and data protection4 min readGuest Wi-Fi in an ISO 27001 or audited businessAuditors ask for access records, integrity evidence, role-based access, an audit trail and network segregation for your guest network. Here is the concrete evidence the box gives you for each.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance4 min readBlocking access to unlawful content: what counts as enough?Blocklists, DNS filtering and family filters are not the same thing. How the three differ on a guest network, and what the appliance does and does not do here.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance4 min readWhich fields belong in a guest Wi-Fi access record?Internal IP, MAC, start and end time, NAT mapping and verification channel. The fields that make an access record useful, and why they should come from a single device.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance4 min readThe "it logs every website" myth: what a hotspot really recordsMany owners believe guest Wi-Fi records every site a visitor opens. With HTTPS and DNS-over-HTTPS that is neither possible nor expected. Here is what a Law 5651 record actually holds.Read more
- Setup and technical4 min readWhat is inside one day of the archive?We open the ZIP you export from the panel: record rows field by field, the manifest, the timestamp file. No guest name, no message. And how to verify it with three commands.Read more
- Setup and technical4 min readWhere does the key that signs the archive live?Hash chain, timestamp, signing key: the concepts in plain words. Who holds the key, how to back up the configuration, and how to hand the archive over when the box is replaced.Read more
- Box or cloud4 min readThe contract ends. The inspection does not.When your cloud service ends, how do you reach two years of archive? With the box, the archive stays on your premises. The questions to ask any provider before you sign.Read more
- KVKK and data protection4 min readWhat happens to a record after two years? Automatic deletion and KVKKOn day 730 the record is deleted from the box and the deletion is written to the audit trail. How retention, the duty to destroy and guest requests fit on one calendar.Read more
- Setup and technical3 min readThe 3-2-1 rule for your Law 5651 archiveThree copies, two kinds of media, one off-site. We applied the oldest rule in backup to a two-year guest Wi-Fi archive: box disk, SFTP copy and offline export.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance4 min readThe 4 most common mistakes in log retentionKeeping records is not enough; they have to be usable. A single copy, unsigned records, rows tied to no identity, deletion when the disk fills: four mistakes and the panel answer to each.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance4 min read12 questions an inspector asks, 12 answers from the boxAn administrative inspection is not a law-enforcement request. Here are 12 questions an inspector is likely to ask and where each answer lives in the panel.Read more
- Setup and technical4 min readThe 10-point acceptance test after installationLooking like it works and actually working are different things. Ten checks on installation day take you from the record flow to the off-site copy, link by link.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance4 min readA prosecutor's letter arrived. What do you do in the next 15 minutes?An official request for guest Wi-Fi records is no reason to panic. Verify the request, narrow the scope, export from the panel, deliver encrypted and keep a delivery record.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance3 min readIs a time stamp required for guest Wi-Fi records?A common claim: records are invalid unless time stamped. The phrase does not appear in the regulation at all. So where is it actually required?Read more
- Hotspot and captive portal3 min readSMS-verified Wi-Fi sign-in: how it works end to endThe guest types a number, a code arrives, the internet opens. What happens in those seconds, and which settings break it?Read more
- Hotspot and captive portal2 min readWhy the Wi-Fi password on the wall is not enoughOne shared password is easy, but it creates three separate problems: you do not know who connected, the line cannot be shared fairly, and the password never changes.Read more
- Industry guides3 min readGuest Wi-Fi in hotels: foreign guests, floor load, check-outHotel Wi-Fi differs from a café's: guests stay for days, arrive from abroad, and their access should close at check-out. A practical setup guide.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance3 min readHow long must guest Wi-Fi records be kept?The answers circulating range from six months to two years. The regulation gives one clear figure: two years. With the article.Read more
- Setup and technical2 min readDoes MAC randomisation break device remembering?iOS and Android now join each network with a random MAC address. Does that stop a guest being recognised on their second visit? Short answer: no, with conditions.Read more
- KVKK and data protection4 min readKVKK and guest Wi-Fi: is a phone number special category data?Notice, consent, data security and retention. We also correct a common error: a phone number is not special category personal data.Read more
- Box or cloud3 min readBox or cloud? Choosing a guest Wi-Fi solutionBoth approaches are right somewhere. The decision comes down to where your records live and what happens during an outage.Read more
- Industry guides3 min readGuest Wi-Fi in cafés and restaurants: for a business with no IT staffA guest at a table should connect in 20 seconds, and you should know who connected. A setup you can do once and forget.Read more
- Setup and technical2 min readWhere does a hotspot appliance sit in your network?The order between modem, switch, access points and the hotspot appliance. Three common layouts and when to choose each.Read more
- Hotspot and captive portal3 min readWhat is a captive portal and how does it work?What is behind the sign-in page that opens when you join the Wi-Fi at a hotel or café? A step-by-step explanation, technical but readable.Read more
- Industry guides2 min readGuest Wi-Fi in malls and retail: density and network separationHundreds of concurrent devices, separating common areas from shop networks, and campaign notices. What makes a mall installation different.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance4 min readWhat does Law 5651 require from a business offering guest Wi-Fi?The duties are listed not in the law itself but in a 2017 regulation. Here is what each article says, with sources.Read more
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