Education
Dormitories and campuses
Students stay in the same building with the same devices all term. Hotspot-Box registers them once, shares the line fairly and keeps the record on campus.
- One registration per term
- Per-person speed and quota
- One box per block
- Usage reports
Five people exhaust the line
In a dormitory everyone connects at nine in the evening. A few devices downloading or updating games mean hundreds of students cannot open a lecture video. On an open or single-password network, nobody can see who consumes how much.
Students are here all term. Asking for a code every day is wrong; taking no registration at all is wrong too. Phone, laptop, tablet: three devices per person is normal.
On a large campus the blocks are far apart and the lines are separate. You need a structure managed from one place where each block's record stays where it belongs.
What the law expects from a dormitory
A dormitory or campus that opens internet access to its students counts as a collective-use provider under Law 5651; internal IP allocation records are expected to be kept, protected with a time stamp and retained for 2 years.
Verifying under-18 students by phone number, and the parent's role in that process, is a separate legal question; seek advice on it. The box also works without phone verification: registered-user accounts or coupons issued by the administration are used instead. This page is not legal advice.
This page is not legal advice; confirm your obligations with your legal adviser.
Setting up in a dormitory or campus
- 1
One box per block or per internet line, placed between the block's modem and the floor switches. All are monitored from one panel.
- 2
The student network sits on its own VLAN. The administration office, camera system and canteen till stay outside it.
- 3
The student SSID is pointed at the portal; client isolation is enabled on the access points so devices in different rooms cannot see each other.
- 4
At the start of term the student list is loaded as registered users; at the end of term the accounts are closed in bulk.
- 5
The shared printer in the study hall, the canteen screen and the smart boards pass through MAC exemption.
Login method
Sign-in method
- SMS code
- Registered user
- Remembered device
- Coupon
The primary method in a dormitory is a registered-user account opened at the start of term; the phone is verified by SMS code on first login and the remembered device passes without a code afterwards. Visitors and parents receive day coupons. Recommended plan template (long stay): 15/5 Mbps, 24-hour session, 3 devices, 5 GB/day, device remembered for 7 days.
Ready-made plan templates
Speed, session and device count are set per plan on the box, independent of the access point brand. The values below are our own lab recommendations and can be changed in the panel.
- Recommended for this sector
Extended stay
Hotels, serviced apartments, dormitories, hospitals, residential complexes
- Speed (down / up)
- 15 / 5 Mbps
- Session
- 24 hours
- Idle timeout
- 30 min
- Devices
- 3
- Daily quota
- 5 GB
- Remembered device
- 7 days
No new code every day; in dormitories the remembered window can span the whole term.
Standard
Cafés, restaurants, shops, bakeries, salons, gyms
- Speed (down / up)
- 10 / 5 Mbps
- Session
- 2 hours
- Idle timeout
- 15 min
- Devices
- 2
- Daily quota
- 1 GB
- Remembered device
- Off
Keeps tables turning; a guest who wants more gets a coupon from the till.
Conference
Events, fairs, waiting lounges, cinemas, bank branches
- Speed (down / up)
- 5 / 2 Mbps
- Session
- 4 hours
- Idle timeout
- 10 min
- Devices
- 1
- Daily quota
- 500 MB
- Remembered device
- Off
Low speed and one device for many simultaneous users; capacity 250 concurrent devices.
Staff-guest
Offices, factories, office towers, logistics, tutoring centres
- Speed (down / up)
- 20 / 10 Mbps
- Session
- 10 hours
- Idle timeout
- 30 min
- Devices
- 3
- Daily quota
- None
- Remembered device
- 30 days
Registered users or coupon groups; separate groups for suppliers and subcontractors.
What is recorded
- Registered user identity and verified phone number (encrypted, masked)
- Device MAC address and internal IP
- Session start and end time
- NAT details where present
- Daily hash chain and time stamp
What is not recorded
- Websites and apps visited
- Messages and content
- Location
- Course or grade information
Example scenario
Example scenario: a three-block student dormitory
- Problem
- A dormitory with three blocks, each on its own fibre line. Speed drops in the evenings and complaints reach the administration. The password is pinned to the noticeboard at the start of term; nobody knows who is connected.
- Solution
- One box per block, all three on a single panel. The student list was loaded as registered users at the start of term. Plan: 15/5 Mbps, 24-hour session, 3 devices, 5 GB/day, device remembered for 7 days. A one-day coupon group was opened for parents and visitors. The hourly density report is e-mailed to the administration every morning.
- Outcome
- Students verify their phone once a week and connect without a code on the other days. With per-person speed limits, a few devices can no longer hold the line on their own. Each block's record sits signed on its own box; accounts are closed in bulk at the end of term.
An illustrative example; no real business is named.
Frequently asked
Will students enter a code every day?
No. The registered-user account is valid all term; with device remembering on, the same device passes without a code for 7 days and a short verification is enough when that lapses. If MAC randomisation on a phone defeats recognition, the student simply requests a new code.
A few students consume the whole line. What can I do?
Set a per-person speed (we suggest 15/5 Mbps) and a daily quota (5 GB) in the plan template; the limit applies to each user separately. One room's download then cannot cut off the corridor's lecture video. Values are changed in one place on the box.
Is phone verification appropriate for under-18 students?
That is a matter for legal advice; we do not rule on it. Technically the box works without phone verification: the administration gives each student a registered-user account or a term coupon, and the record is kept against that identity.
Is one box enough for a large campus?
One box handles 250 concurrent devices. When blocks are on separate lines, one box per block is right for both capacity and record integrity; each box keeps the record for its own line. All boxes are monitored from one panel and plans are changed in one place.
Which reports reach the administration?
Hourly density, the login funnel (opened the portal, entered the code, connected), user and device counts and coupon usage are ready in the panel. They download as CSV or go out on a schedule to the address you set. No report contains websites visited.
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