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Network design, access points, SMS providers and troubleshooting.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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