
MikroTik wireless hotspot uses a captive portal to require a username and password, and can manage accounts and speed with a radius server or user manager for external authentication.
Learn how the MikroTik hotspot works: open wifi assigns an IP via dhcp, redirects to a captive portal for authentication, and uses nat to grant internet access after login.
Identify the main requirements to configure the MikroTik hotspot: a valid wan ip, a functional wlan ip, internet connectivity, a valid dns server, and an open wireless network.
Enable the MikroTik hotspot, enable the hotspot feature, enable DHCP client on Ethernet 1, set WLAN to AP bridge with SSID wifi hotspot, verify DNS and connectivity, and update packages.
Configure the MikroTik hotspot on RouterOS v6 with the step-by-step wizard, define IP pools and masquerade, set DNS and captive portal name, then authenticate a user and verify connectivity.
Configure cookies and a free ten-minute trial in MikroTik hotspot with user manager, disable and delete cookies, test the captive portal login, and manage trial profiles.
Learn to cap a MikroTik hotspot user’s access by time or by upload/download traffic using RouterOS v6, creating a user, 30-second uptime, and a 10 MB download limit.
Create and apply MikroTik hotspot user profiles to limit bandwidth and sessions, including a trial profile (256 kbps upload, 512 kbps download) and a one-user profile for user two.
Learn to create a hotspot user profile for speed limitation, test login from mobile and PC, and set 15-second session timeouts alongside idle timeouts to manage bandwidth.
Configure MikroTik hotspot advertising by creating an advertise profile, enabling the advertiser, adding ad websites, and applying the profile to a user for a timed interval of pop ups.
Discover how ip binding bypasses hotspot authentication on a MikroTik router, granting selected devices internet access without login while ensuring the binding remains after reconnect.
Learn how to use the MikroTik hotspot walled garden to allow specific websites to be accessed without authentication, by creating an IP list and applying destination addresses.
Learn how to customize the MikroTik hotspot captive portal by adding your logo, applying themes or templates, editing the login page code, and configuring post-login redirects.
Showcases setting a self-signed SSL for MikroTik hotspot splash pages and captive portal, including creating a certificate authority and signing the hotspot certificate for the IP services.
Learn PCQ queueing on the MikroTik hotspot to provide equal bandwidth to users, configuring QoS by IP address for dynamic sharing as user numbers change.
Master QoS on MikroTik hotspot by labeling upload and download connections and packets with Mangle, using pre- and post-routing, to enable PCQ-based bandwidth sharing among users.
Implement pcq queueing on the MikroTik hotspot by creating secure upload and download queues, assigning two megabits per second for download, and testing per-user bandwidth for equality.
Explore MikroTik hotspot administration using the free user manager for centralized user, voucher, and bandwidth management. Learn installation and integration with your router to authenticate users.
Download the user manager package that matches your MikroTik router version, copy it to the router, reboot to activate, and verify activation in system packages.
Learn to connect MikroTik hotspot with the user manager, configure radius authentication, and establish a mutual shared secret to ensure seamless user login handling.
Create a 30-second profile in the user manager and assign it to a new user, then test hotspot login. If the same user exists on both, hotspot is checked first.
Replace the user manager logo by adding a custom file to the umpired user manager files folder, update style, adjust the logo text and window title, and verify statistics.
Generate multiple users at once in MikroTik user manager, apply a one-week 1 Mbps download and 512 kbps upload limit, print branded vouchers, and customize voucher templates.
Discover how to reset the user manager password when forgotten, and verify the password you set to reuse it. Then login and change it from the terminal or Winbox.
Back up the user manager's main and log databases, reset the manager by clearing data, then upload and load the backup to restore all hotspot configurations.
Enable WhatsApp traffic on a MikroTik hotspot without user authentication by configuring the walled garden to allow WhatsApp.com and WhatsApp.net on port 443, enabling text messaging for unauthenticated users.
Enable free live chat on a MikroTik hotspot using the Talk tool. Integrate the chat script into the captive portal login and status pages to issue vouchers.
Have you ever been in a cafe, restaurant or a park where they offer internet on wireless? You normally get connected to their Wi-Fi and it is mostly asking you to enter a username and a password to be able to get access to the internet - This is what a hotspot is.
You, as a MikroTik network engineer, may be asked to install and configure a Wireless hotspot in your company or at your customer place and things look too complicated to you to do this task. This course will help to go step by step using a lot of LABs to understand how to install a wireless hotspot and what are the best tips needed to be used to have the hotspot working well.
In this course, I will start installing the hotspot from scratch and I will go through all the options available in the hotspot. Things like user management, profiles, bandwidth limitation, Walled garden, hotspot advertisement, IP binding, connecting the hotspot to the user Manager, generating vouchers for users and many other topics will be covered in this course so you have the full knowledge of how to configure the wireless hotspot when being asked.
The course will be based on LABs to make things very easy to you when you want to deploy this in your real network. The LABs are designed on step-by-step methodology which is always used in all my courses.
If you are interested to learn how to configure wireless hotspot on MikroTik, then join me in this course and let's get started.