User's Guide

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TRENDnet User’s Guide

TEW-821DAP

Redirect URL

1. Log into your management page (see “Access the management page” on page 13.

2. Click on the System tab and click Captive Portal.

3. Choose the Captive Portal mode Redirect URL.

First, enable Captive Portal, enter the URL/website to redirect users and set an

authentication timeout value. Then click Save at the bottom of the page to save the

settings.

 Redirect – Enables the redirect URL captive portal function.

 Redirect URL – This is the website or URL guest users will be automatically

redirected after connecting to your wireless network through your captive

portal page. (e.g. https://www.trendnet.com)

 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.

After you have defined the initial parameters, you can apply portal page customization.

Under Upload Image File, click Browse or Choose File depending on your browser, and

navigate to the directory where the selected image is located and select the image.

Once you have selected the image, click Upload.

Once you have uploaded the image, an image preview will appear and you can assign

the image Set as background or Set as logo. If you would like to delete the image and

upload a different image, you can also click Delete to delete the image.

Note: Only 2 images can be uploaded for portal page customization (Only one image can

be set for the portal page background and another image can be set for the

company/organization logo). Images are automatically scaled when uploaded. The

recommended image formats are JPG, PNG, GIF. Maximum file size for images is 250KB.

After you have uploaded your images, you can add a welcome or greeting message to

display to your guest users on the captive portal page. A preview of the page and text

will also be displayed. After you have finished entering your message, click Save at the

bottom of the page to save the settings.

Note: Aside from text, you can enter HTML tags for text formatting and styles.

Below is an example of a greeting message formatted in html.

Welcome to TRENDnet WiFi access!