User's Guide

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TRENDnet User’s Guide
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First, enable Captive Portal, enter user name and password accounts for users to
authenticate and set an authentication timeout value. Then click Save at the bottom of
the page to save the settings.
 Captive Portal – Enables the captive portal function.
 Authentication Timeout – This is the session time period (minutes) which users
are allowed to be logged in to your wireless network. Once the time expires,
users will automatically logged and will need to log back in through the captive
portal page again in order to reconnect to your wireless network. It is
recommended to set a value to ensure authentication sessions are closed after
a certain time period.
Select the Login Method for connecting to your captive portal WiFi network. At the
Login Method drop-down list, select one of the following.
 User name and password – Requires users to enter a user name and
password for authentication to connect to your captive portal WiFi
network which must be defined in the Users List.
Note: Multiple users can use the same user account to log into your captive
portal WiFi network.
o To create a new user account, next to Setting Username and
Password, enter the user name and password for the new user
account and click Add. Repeat to add more user accounts.
 Single password – Requires users to enter a single password to connect
your captive portal WiFi network which must be defined in the Setting
Single Password settings.
o To specify a single password, next to Setting Single Password,
enter the new password or click Generate to randomly generate a
new password.
 Both – Users can enter either a user name and password or single
password to connect to your captive portal WiFi network. Both prompts
will be displayed on the captive portal page and user can select either
method to authenticate.